Tashi Bister
speaker
5 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 16 Jan
Tashi Bister’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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When a person dies in Upper Mustang, Nepal, if they've led a good life and the stars are correctly aligned, the body is offered as food to vultures in a sacred ritual called sky burial.
My name is Tashi Bister and I've come to meet the monks and morticians keeping the ceremony alive.
They know the dangers of military action, which can break open a country, but where you're not able to actually put it back together again.
You know, I was in shortly before the Iraq invasion.
We met with the Saudi foreign minister in Paris, we at the UN.
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