Dear BKDB,

In 1983, I traveled to Lhasa, Tibet and stayed there for 10 days and heard this:  many budist Tibetans do not like being photo'd, they believe that if you are photo'd, your soul is taken away.  For those who were photo'd and keep the photos, their offsprings would burn the photos when the parents/grandparents died.  The most sacred furneral is "tian zang" - feeds the body of the dead ones to the vultures.  At the end, only those that are valuable/meaningful to the communities/others are worth keeping. 

TXK