BUDDHISM

Why True Buddhism Is Vegan

Buddhist Teachings On Eating Animal Products

Pathless Pilgrim
7 min readJul 22, 2021

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Buddhist monks in robes and carrying bowls, walking in single file along the side of an old road through the forest
Photo by Sadaham Yathra via Pexels

If there is any major world religion whose adherents ought to be vegan, it is surely Buddhism, yet vegans are a minority among those who call themselves followers of the Buddha. There are even so-called Buddhists who eat meat, but in this article I will argue that eating meat directly contradicts the

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