[Buddha-l] Victimized vegans

[Erik Hoogcarspel]

Wong Weng Fai schreef:
>
> Erik wrote...
>> The Buddha only prohibited monks to eat meat of animals slaughtered 
>> only on behalf of them.
>
> "There may be in time to come people who make foolish remarks about 
> meat-eating, saying, "Meat is proper to eat, unobjectionable, and 
> permitted by the Buddha."
>
> [Meat-eating] is forbidden by me everywhere and all the time for those 
> who are abiding in compassion; [he who eats meat] will be born in the 
> same place as the lion, tiger, wolf, etc."
>
>                                                  -- The Lankavatara Sutra
>
> http://www2.fodian.net/old/English/0672_08.html
>
>
> W.F. Wong
>
With all respect, but the Lanka itself is not a consistent text written by one author, let alone that it contains words of the historical Buddha.

Erik


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