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...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
| Subito Delivery Service: | Order now. |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Published: |
New York, NY
Columbia University Press
2017
|
| In: | Year: 2017 |
| Series/Journal: | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
|
| Further subjects: | B
India & South Asia / Asia / HISTORY
B NATURE / Animal Rights B Buddhism / RELIGION / Tibetan B Buddhism / RELIGION / Rituals & Practice |
| Online Access: |
Cover (Publisher) Cover (Publisher) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
Search Result 1
Search Result 2
Print
Book
898563348
Search Result 3
