Food of Sinful Demons: Meat, Vegetarianism, and the Limits of Buddhism in Tibet
Tibetan Buddhism teaches compassion toward all beings, a category that explicitly includes animals. Slaughtering animals is morally problematic at best and, at worst, completely incompatible with a religious lifestyle. Yet historically most Tibetans—both monastic and lay—have made meat a regular par...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Columbia University Press
2017
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| In: | Year: 2017 |
| Series/Journal: | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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