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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New York, NY :
Columbia University Press,
[2017]
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Series: | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transliteration and Translation
- Map of Tibet
- Introduction
- ONE. A Brief History of Vegetarianism in Tibet
- TWO. Meat in the Monastery
- THREE. The Importance of compassion
- FOUR. Tantric Perspectives
- FIVE. A Necessary Evil
- SIX. A Positive Good
- SEVEN. Seeking a Middle Way
- Epilogue
- Tibetan Names and Terms
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index