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Mahayana lay Buddhists often eat vegetarian diets on the vegetarian dates Zhai qi (Chinese: 齋期; pinyin: Zhāi qí). There are different arrangement of the dates, from several days to three months in each year, in some traditions, the celebration of the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara 's birthday, Bodhi Day and Great Renunciation days hold the ...
Buddhist influenced Korean vegetarian side dishes. The First Precept prohibits Buddhists from killing people or animals. [33] The matter of whether this forbids Buddhists from eating meat has long been a matter of debate, however, as vegetarianism is not a given in all schools of Buddhism.
Most of the dishes considered to be uniquely Buddhist are vegetarian, but not all Buddhist traditions require vegetarianism of lay followers or clergy. [2] Vegetarian eating is primarily associated with the East and Southeast Asian tradition in China, Vietnam, Japan, and Korea where it is commonly practiced by clergy and may be observed by laity on holidays or as a devotional practice.
Mao Ziyuan (Chinese: 茅子元, c. 1096–1166) also known by his Dharma name Cizhao (慈照) was a Chinese Buddhist monk who founded a popular Pure Land Buddhist community known as the White Lotus School (bailian-zong 白蓮宗, also known as 白蓮菜 White Lotus Vegetarians) during the Song dynasty. [1]
In modern chinese the terms 纯素 (chún sù, "pure vegetarian/vegan") or 全素 (quán sù, “totally vegetarian/vegan”) are used to mean 'vegan', especially when referring to non-food vegan goods, and 纯净素 (chún jìng sù, "pure Buddhist vegetarian/vegan") is used to refer to the Buddhist diet, which is more restrictive than the ...
Buddhists around the world are celebrating Bodhi Day. Also called Buddha’s Enlightenment Day, it commemorates when Siddhartha Gautama attained awakening — or enlightenment — some 2,600 years ...
Unless we have statistics that show that "most" Western Buddhists are vegetarians - it might just add to the general confusion! But of course you may well be right that a good many Western Buddhists are in fact vegetarian. Best wishes to you. From Tony. TonyMPNS 19:44, 1 June 2007 (UTC) Majority of Buddhists in the West are immigrants from Asia.
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