Sha chang bkag pa'i lung 'dren rnams

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ཤ་ཆང་བཀག་པའི་ལུང་འདྲེན་རྣམས།

sha chang bkag pa'i lung 'dren rnams

Scriptural Citations Prohibiting Meat and Alcohol

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In 1314 Dolpopa vowed not to eat slaughtered meat for the rest of his life. He was twenty-three at the time, had received full monastic ordination that same year, and was on a tour of the preeminent scholastic institutions in Central Tibet. His Advice and Quotes about Refraining from Meat and Alcohol was composed in 1325, the same year that he first taught at Jonang and was requested by his teacher Yontan Gyatso to assume leadership of the Jonang yogi community. While there is certainly precedent for a meatless diet among spiritual masters in Tibet prior to Dolpopa, with early Kagyü masters including Pakmodrupa (1110–1170) and his disciples Jigten Sumgön (1143–1217) and Taklung Tangpa (1142–1209) being noteworthy exemplars, Dolpopa's advice is among the earliest Tibetan writings on vegetarianism. (Slightly modified from Michael Sheehy, "Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen on Refraining from Meat," in The Faults of Meat: Tibetan Buddhist Writings on Vegetarianism (Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications, 2019), 55.

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sha chang bkag pa'i lung 'dren rnams [ཤ་ཆང་བཀག་པའི་ལུང་འདྲེན་རྣམས།]. [Scriptural Citations Prohibiting Meat and Alcohol].

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Barstow, Geoffrey, ed. The Faults of Meat: Tibetan Buddhist Writings on Vegetarianism. Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications, 2019.

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Should all Buddhists be vegetarian?

Vegetarianism is an important topic of debate in Buddhist circles—some argue that Buddhists should avoid meat entirely while others suggest that it is acceptable. For the most part, however, this ethical query has been conducted in the West without consulting traditional literature on the subject. The Faults of Meat brings together for the first time a collection of rich and intricate explorations of authoritative Tibetan views on eating meat. These fourteen nuanced texts, ranging from scholastic treatises to poetic verse, reveal vegetarianism as a significant, ongoing issue of debate for Tibetans across time and traditions, with a wide variety of voices marshaled against meat, and a few in favor. Authors include many important Tibetan teachers:

Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen (1292–1361) Khedrup Jé (1385–1438) The eighth Karmapa, Mikyö Dorjé (1507–1554) Shabkar Tsokdrük Rangdröl (1781–1851) Khenpo Tsultrim Lodrö (1961– ) and many more.

These Buddhist teachers recognize both the ethical problems that surround meat eating and the practical challenges of maintaining a vegetarian diet; their skilled arguments are illuminated further by the translators’ introductions to each work.

The perspectives in The Faults of Meat are strikingly relevant to our discussions of vegetarianism today; they introduce us to new approaches and solutions to a contentious issue for Buddhists. (Source: Wisdom Publications)