Teachings 10 Misconceptions about Buddhism
Beggars Can’t Be Choosers
Are all Buddhist vegetarians? The Buddha explicitly rejected vegetarianism as a requirement for his followers.
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Food of Bodhisattvas: Buddhist Teachings on Abstaining from Meat
Due to Buddhist teachings on nonviolence and compassion, people often assume that Buddhists are vegetarians. Indeed, many Tricycle readers cried foul after we ran a recipe in the Winter 2010 issue that listed chicken as an…
The Ethics of Farming Animals
The way I see it, there are two ways to think about the ethics of meat eating. One is to look at the suffering of each individual animal that is killed for consumption. The other way…
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