"I would like to ask everyone to do whatever you can to preserve and protect the environment so that we can prevent any future disasters." --17th Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje (August 2026) 17th Karmapa's statement about the environment and natural disasters Yesterday the 17th Karmapa Facebook page posted a short and moving message in English,… Continue reading NATURAL DISASTERS, THE ENVIRONMENT AND KILLING AND EATING ANIMALS (17th Gyalwang Karmapa’s 2021 teaching and message about the Nepal-Tibet tragedy)
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The 17th Karmapa’s lifetime vow to give up eating meat and other recent teachings on Buddhism and eating animals (video clips in Tibetan w English subtitles)
Below are some video clips I made of the 17th Karmapa's recent teachings in 2021 (in Tibetan with English subtitles) on the topic of the importance of not eating slaughtered animals not only for the Karmapas and Karma Kagyu tradition, but in original Buddhism Vinaya, and the Mahayana. For the full teachings (Days 16 and… Continue reading The 17th Karmapa’s lifetime vow to give up eating meat and other recent teachings on Buddhism and eating animals (video clips in Tibetan w English subtitles)
Buddhism and Eating Animals: Is It Permissible or Not?
"It is not true, Mahāmati, that meat is proper food and permissible for the Śrāvaka when [the animal] was not killed by himself, when he did not order others to kill it, when it was not specially meant for him. "--Shakyamuni Buddha in Lankāvatāra Sūtra, Chapter 8 "How hateful this murdering beings ‘custom’!How hugely regrettable… Continue reading Buddhism and Eating Animals: Is It Permissible or Not?