Meat Eating: 1 definition
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Meat Eating means something in Buddhism, Pali. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
In Buddhism
Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
Source: Pali Kanon: Manual of Buddhist Terms and DoctrinesJust as the karmical, i.e. moral, quality of any action is determined by the quality of volition (cetanā) underlying it, and independently of this volition nothing whatever can be called karmically wholesome or unwholesome (kusala, akusala), just so it is with the merely external act of meat-eating, this being as such purely non-moral, i.e. karmically neutral (avyākata).
'In 3 circumstances meat-eating is to be rejected: if one has seen, or heard, or suspects (that the animal has been slaughtered expressly for one's own sake)" (M. 55). For if in such a case one should partake of the meat, one would as it were approve the murder of animals, and thus encourage the animal-murderer in his murderous deeds. Besides, that the Buddha never objected, in ordinary circumstances, to meat-eating may be clearly understood from many passages of the Suttas (e.g. A. V. 44; VIII, 12; M. 55, etc.), as also from the Vinaya, where it is related that the Buddha firmly rejected Devadatta's proposal to forbid meat-eating to the monks; further from the fact that 10 kinds of meat were (for merely external reasons) forbidden to the monks, namely from elephants, tigers, serpents, etc.
Theravāda is a major branch of Buddhism having the the Pali canon (tipitaka) as their canonical literature, which includes the vinaya-pitaka (monastic rules), the sutta-pitaka (Buddhist sermons) and the abhidhamma-pitaka (philosophy and psychology).
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Partial matches: Eating, Meat.
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Lankavatara Sutra (by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki)
The Bhikkhus Rules (by Bhikkhu Ariyesako)
Meat-eating < [Chapter 3 - Possessions And Offerings]
Killing < [Chapter 1 - Harmlessness]
Chaitanya Bhagavata (by Bhumipati Dāsa)
Verse 2.19.64 < [Chapter 19 - The Lord’s Pastimes in Advaita’s House]
Verse 1.2.87 < [Chapter 2 - The Lord’s Appearance]
Verse 1.16.293 < [Chapter 16 - The Glories of Śrī Haridāsa Ṭhākura]
Prasthanatrayi Swaminarayan Bhashyam (Study) (by Sadhu Gyanananddas)
9. Dikṣā (1): Dikṣita Housholder’s Niyamas < [Chapter 4 - Analysis on the Basis of Spiritual Endeavour]
Puranic encyclopaedia (by Vettam Mani)
Tattvartha Sutra (with commentary) (by Vijay K. Jain)
Verse 6.13 - The nature of Faith-deluding Karmas < [Chapter 6 - Influx of Karmas]
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