Buddhism in Five Minutes - Elizabeth J. Harris
57. Are Buddhists Vegetarian?
Buddhism in Five Minutes - Elizabeth J. Harris
Dhivan Thomas Jones [+]
University of Chester
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Dhivan Thomas Jones is a Lecturer in Philosophy and Religious Studies
at the University of Chester. His research is mainly in the area of early
Buddhist philosophy.
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As a matter of fact, many Buddhists are not vegetarian, and neither was the Buddha a vegetarian. But, as an ethical principle, vegetarianism does follow from the Buddhist principle of non-harming (ahiṃsā), and many Asian and Western Buddhists forego meat eating out of compassion for farmed animals.