Sha chang bkag pa'i lung 'dren rnams/Full text
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.
| Reference | 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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| People | Dölpopa Sherab Gyaltsen |
