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Tower burial is one of the burial customs of Tibetans. It is the most noble, highest treatment and highest specification of burial among Tibetans. It is also known as spiritual tower burial. When the eminent monk Zugu (commonly known as the Living Buddha) died, he took out the mouth or anus of the body, and then treated it with spices, and then worshipped it in the spiritual pagoda made of gold, silver, copper, wood or mud (གདུང་རྟེན) according to the status.

The spiritual tower of the May 13th Dalai Lama is in the Potala Palace. The spiritual pagoda of the fifth to ninth Panchen Lama was originally in Tashlunbu Temple. It was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution. The bones were dismembered and abandoned by the Red Guards, and later recovered by the Tibetans. [ 1] In the 1980s, the 10th Panchen Lama buried the remains of the five people in the spiritual pagoda and re-consecrated it to the Tashrhunpo Temple.