Introduction Logical positivism, which aims at legitimizing philosophical phenomena discourses based on empirical evidence, heralded the science of philosophy. Before the era of verificationism, philosophy had gray areas such as whether scientific proof could elucidate facts about invisible things or scientific schools of thoughts could be justified (Uebel, 2013). One realm of humankind’s social life that is always mysterious is religion. Different religious denominations exist due to the religious schisms that occurred during religious reformations period, with every sect professing its religion as supreme and only true. Though religion is about living a life that pleases a supreme deity, there are religious practices that are contrary to religious teachings, and thus phenomenal. In this view, this research paper aims at understanding the Tibetan monks’ practice of feeding the remains of one of their own to vultures, upon their demise, based on the Durkheim and Wittgensteinian’s approaches to social philosophy. Tibetan Buddhists are amongst the most pious people due to their dedicated praying and meditations, besides being wise and kind. However, the act of living monks discarding the remains of their dead colleagues to vultures negates kindness in the eyes of many people. Most religions believe in burying the dead and consecrating their graves as a sign of respect and a proper send off to the after-life. In addition, burying the dead makes them not to haunt the living since some religions believe in reincarnations and resurrections. Though this practice appears strange and perverse, there is a plausible explanation behind it. Perhaps the Buddhists’ point of view legitimizes their actions in an attempt to erase any negative perceptions. The Durkheim’s Approach As the bottom-line of Emile Durkheim’s doctrine on sociology was to understand society, there must be avoidance of reductionism and consideration of social phenomena as general things. According to Durkheim, social problems should be devoid of biological or philosophical explanations since they are not inherent in any individual and are unique with distinct determinants. Moreover, social problems continue long after a person has passed on and have forceful power among the living. On religion, Emile Durkheim avers that religion was communal rather than individual, and religious phenomena emerge when there is a separation between the realm of profane and realm of sacred (Mauss, Hubert, & Hertz, 2016). In this light, one can thus explain a social phenomenon from a holistic point of view as opposed to focusing on the individuals executing the act. Sociologists should thus interrogate the phenomenon of the Tibetan monks who feed vultures the carcass of their colleagues as the external pressure acting on the group against the individual predilections of the monks. The physical environment of Tibet has compelled the Tibetan monks to embrace scavenging by vultures as a means of disposing dead monks’ bodies against their will. The Buddhist monks believe in jhator, a sky burial (Pedersen, 2013). When a monk dies, his colleagues sever him into pieces and ferry him to the mountaintops for vultures to