Animal Rights Concerns

Talk on Vegetarianism by a Buddhist

Talk on Vegetarianism by Orgyen Trinle Dorje, Karmapa XVII

As translated simultaneously by Ringu Tulku Rinpoche on january 3th, 2007.

Some topics:

• Is eating meat allowed for Buddhist monks or not?
• Eating meat is very much like killing.
• In the Mahayana it is important not to eat meat.
• Buddha said that the Bodhisattvas should not eat any meat.
• Eating meat is regarder not good from the Shravakayana point of view.

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