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The Question of Vegetarianism and Diet in Pali Buddhism
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Chan, Son and Zen Masters

• Buddhism & Vegetarianism Poster Slide Show
  By Kong Meng San Phor Kark See Monastery [download 1.4 MB]
  
• Comments on the Surangama Sutra & Food
  By Master Hsuan Hua [download 942 KB]
• Interview with Ven. Sven Ross (2004)
  By Gabe Konrad [download 248 KB]
• On Stopping Killing
  By Master Lun-ch'i Chu-hung [download 136 KB]
• The Horror of Taking Lives and Eating Meat
  By Master Hsuan Hua [download 190 KB]
• To Cherish All Life
  By Roshi Kapleau [download 4 MB]
  

Tibetan Buddhist Lama's

• A Powerful Message by a Powerful Yogi
  Interview with Chatral Rinpoche in 2005 [download 135 KB]
  By Tibetan Volunteers for Animal Rights (TVA)
  
• Chatral Rinpoche's Steadfast Commitment to Ethics
  Interview with Chatral Rinpoche in 2000 [download 145 KB]
  By Zach Larson
• Instructions On Not Eating Meat From H.H. 17th Karmapa, Orgyen Trinle Dorje
  By Vin Harris [download 113 KB]
  
• Kyabje Lati Rinpoche on Vegetarianism
  Interview by Kunga Nyima [download 125 KB]
  
• On Meat Eating
  By Chatral Rinpoche [download 132 KB]
• Poem of Animals on Eating Meat
  By Tulku Pema Wangyal [download 90 KB]
• Shabkar's backgrounds - Introduction Food of Bodhisattvas
  By Padmakara Translation Group [download 340 KB]
  Short Vietnamese version of the same introduction [download 166 KB]
  Full Romanian translation of Food of Bodhisattvas [download 800 KB]
  
• Song of Advice for Giving Up the Eating of Meat
  By Nyala Pema Duddul [download 184 KB]
• The Story of the Hunted Deer `The Messenger of Renunciation`
  By Rigdzin Jigme Lingpa [download 750 KB]
• Talk on Vegetarianism
  By Orgyen Trinle Dorje, Karmapa XVII [download 130 KB]
  
• The Benefits of Saving Lives
  By Chatral Rinpoche [download 116 KB]
• The Significance and Benefits of Six-Syllable Mantra Recitation
  By Drubwang Konchock Norbu Rinpoche [download 2 MB]
• The Words of My Perfect Teacher - On Red Offerings
  By Patrul Rinpoche [download 175 KB]
• The Words of My Perfect Teacher - On Food & Taking Life
  By Patrul Rinpoche [download 170 KB]
  
• Tulku Pema Wangyal On Saving Lives & Abstaining From Eating Meat
  By Tulku Pema Wangyal [download 125 KB]
  

Theravada (monks, teachers and scientists)

• Ahimsa (& Vegetarianism), The Light of Truth
  By Ven. Lokanatha [download 546 KB]
• Taking a Stand
  By Ven. Abhinaya [download 99 KB]
• Buddhism & Vegetarianism
  By Ajahn Jagaro (Disrobed - now John Cianciosi) [download 138 KB]
• Food & Buddhism (Different interpretation of same text as John Cianciosi)
  By Dr. B.G. Jivasattha - [download 331 KB]
• The Question of Vegetarianism and Diet in Pali Buddhism
  By James J. Stewart [download 360 KB]

Misc

• A Controversy on Vegetarianism
  Katia Buffetrille, EPHE, CRCAO [download]
• Buddhism Between Abstinence and Indulgence: Vegetarianism in the Life and Works of Jigmé Lingpa
  Geoffrey Barstow, Ph.D. [download ]
  
• Attitude to and Treatment of the Natural World
  Prof. Peter Harvey [download 216 KB]
  
• Buddhism & Vegetarianism, Fiveteen Questions and Answers
  By David N. Snyder, Ph.D. [download 190 KB]
• Green Dharma (Chapter 6 is on food)
  By Georg and Brenda Feuerstein [download 1.1.MB]
• Re-translation of the Lankavatara Sutra, Chapter Eight, & Commentary
  By William Bagley [download 300 KB]
• Interview with Norm Phelps
  By Gabe Konrad [download 242 KB]
  
• Life as a Vegetarian Tibetan Buddhist Practitioner,
  By Eileen Weintraub [download 115 KB]
• Meat, Garlic and Onions:
  An Analysis of Eating Restrictions in Buddhist Culture
  By Nick Kembel [download 114 KB]
• Meat and Poison
  By Padme Zhibde (Bonnie Holsinger) [download 176 KB]
• On the Eschatology of the Mahparinirvana Sutra and Other Matters
  By Stephen Hodge [download 153 KB]
• Shojin Ryori, Culinary Fundamentals in Zen
  By Fujii Sotetsu [download 193 KB]
  
• The Five Precepts
  By Chánh Kiên (Gábor Konrád) [download 168 KB]
• The Future Doesn't Hurt. Yet.
  By Matthieu Ricard [download 190 KB]
  
• Vietnam.-Engl. Buddhist Dictionary, Some Entries on Vegetarianism
  By Thiên Phúc Trân Ngoc [download 111 KB]
• Western Buddhist Motivations for Vegetarianism
  By Stephanie Kaza [download 2,1 MB]

• Animals: Ethics, Rights & Law—A Bibliography
  By Patrick S. O’Donnell (2006) [download 282 KB]
• Chapter One of Neither Monk Nor Layman (On the Japanese Nikujiki Saitai Law of 1872, including allowing meat eating by Buddhist clerics).
  By Richard Jeffe [download 471 KB]
• Detachement and Compassion in Early Buddhism
  By Elizabeth Harris [download 137 KB]
• Livestock's Long Shadow, Environmental Issues and Options
  By the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations [download 4 MB]
  
• Nonviolence In Tibetan Culture
  By Zach Larson
  - download complete book in zipfile of 6 MB
  - or per chapter of 0.5 - 1.5 MB each: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
• Prisoned Chickens Poisoned Eggs
  By Karin Davis, Ph.D. [download 1.2 MB]
  
• Tibetan Volunteers for Animals Newsletter 2006 [download 228 KB]