Food of Sinful Demons: Meat, Vegetarianism, and the Limits of Buddhism in Tibet

by Geoffrey Barstow

Book Overview

Tibetan Buddhism teaches compassion toward all beings, a category that explicitly includes animals. Slaughtering animals is morally problematic at best and, at worst, completely incompatible with a religious lifestyle. Yet historically most Tibetans--both monastic and lay--have made meat a regular part of their diet. In this study of the place of vegetarianism within Tibetan religiosity, Geoffrey Barstow explores the tension between Buddhist ethics...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231179979
• ISBN13: 9780231179973
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"