bodhi tree swaying

I happened across a well-written article today by the title of Animal Rights and the Dhammapada, written by Rosemary Amey, who does a great job of pulling verses out of the Dhammapada in order to assemble a coherent case for Buddhists (and others) being vegetarian.

Background: Buddhism and the Dhammapada

What does Buddhism have to say about animal rights? Among the world’s hundreds of millions of Buddhists, there is disagreement about this basic issue. I first became interested in Buddhism because two of my favourite restaurants (Buddha’s Vegetarian Foods and the Lotus Garden, both on Dundas Street West in Toronto) are Buddhist, and are very careful to serve only vegetarian food with no eggs. In one restaurant I was told that this was necessary because Buddhist monks and nuns eat there. This suggested to me that Buddhism takes the plight

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This is my first post created using Utterli, where I call a phone number and the message is automatically turned into an audio file that can be posted to my blog. It seems to have gone well, technically speaking, except that the email I sent with accompanying text didn’t make it into the body of the post. It seems that was my fault though, I posted from the wrong email account.

Update: For some weird reason the link to the post didn’t work. Utterli automatically gave the post the URL http://www.bodhipaksa.com/archives/1529 – but that came up as a broken …