Article: Cremation: New Reincarnation Route for Tibetans (1)

Basang Zhoima's soul entered the circle of reincarnation through a new gate -- the 83-year-old Tibetan woman was cremated on Monday, in a different style of funeral from that of her fellow Tibetans.

She was cremated at the Xishan (West Mountain) Funeral Home in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region.

Zhoima was the 70th Tibetan cremated since October 17, 2000, when the funeral home, the first of its kind in Tibet, opened. So far, the funeral home has cremated 400 bodies, but most of those were the ethnic Han people.

Also cremated with Zhoima was Dawa Yanglag, a 21-year-old Tibetan woman who died of tuberculosis.