Geoffrey Barstow: 1 book
Food of Sinful Demons
Meat, Vegetarianism, and the Limits of Buddhism in Tibet
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
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...
