Metön Sherab Özer

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Metön Sherab Özer

མེ་སྟོན་ཤེས་རབ་འོད་ཟེར

1058 – 1132

Metön Sherab Özer (1058–1132) was a Bön master who was instrumental in the establishment of Bön monasticism. One of the earliest advocates for vegetarianism, he criticized meat eating in his Vinaya Compendium, one of the earliest Bön texts on the Vinaya. Metön Sherab Özer’s critique focuses specifically on the question of compassion. (Source: Barstow, The Faults of Meat, 235)

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Vinaya - Vinaya refers to the corpus of Buddhist teachings on moral discipline and precepts and is one of the three canonical sets of teachings alongside Sūtra and Abhidharma. It also refers to the monastic tradition which has been passed down since the Buddha's time until our time. Skt विनय  Tib འདུལ་བ།  Ch 毘奈耶  

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Karuṇā - The profound wish for all sentient beings to be free from suffering and the causes of suffering. It is a core virtue in Buddhism and, in the Mahāyāna tradition, develops into 'great compassion' (mahākaruṇā), the driving force behind the pursuit of enlightenment for the benefit of others. Skt करुणा  Tib ཐུགས་རྗེ་  Ch 悲  

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