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THE QUESTION ON WHETHER BUDDHA PERMITTED EATING SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS “FOR HEALTH”: PAST AND PRESENT CONSIDERATIONS. The “absurd” meat-for-health diet of 14th Dalai Lama, the Shakyamuni Buddha’s Vinaya rules, three-fold purity rule, modern science and factory farming methods, and examples of great Buddhist masters who refused meat even when severely sick

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Introduction Recently, I interviewed Maneka Gandhi about her work on animal welfare and protection in India. She spontaneously told me of her telling the 14th Dalai Lama to stop “boasting” to everyone about eating meat for health reasons, and that at her request he stopped eating meat but then later he reverted back to eating… Continue reading THE QUESTION ON WHETHER BUDDHA PERMITTED EATING SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS “FOR HEALTH”: PAST AND PRESENT CONSIDERATIONS. The “absurd” meat-for-health diet of 14th Dalai Lama, the Shakyamuni Buddha’s Vinaya rules, three-fold purity rule, modern science and factory farming methods, and examples of great Buddhist masters who refused meat even when severely sick

ANIMAL LIBERATION, SAVING LIVES. ETHICS AND CONTROVERSIES: A conversation with ‘dangerous philosopher’ and author of the groundbreaking and influential book ‘Animal Liberation’, Prof. Peter Singer (Dakini Conversations podcast (Ep. 8))

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“Racists violate the principle of equality by giving greater weight to the interests of members of their own race when there is a clash between their interests and the interests of those of another race. Sexists violate the principle of equality by favoring the interests of their own sex. Similarly, speciesists allow the interests of… Continue reading ANIMAL LIBERATION, SAVING LIVES. ETHICS AND CONTROVERSIES: A conversation with ‘dangerous philosopher’ and author of the groundbreaking and influential book ‘Animal Liberation’, Prof. Peter Singer (Dakini Conversations podcast (Ep. 8))