Refers to a diet that does not eat fish and meat. This is one of the characteristics of China the Han nationality Buddhism culture. Southern Buddhism follows Hinayana Buddhism, so monks can eat meat. Tibetan Buddhism never envies cruelty; Japanese Buddhism is the spreading area of the Han nationality Buddhism culture in China. Early monks were vegetarians, which is called "intensive cuisine" in Japanese. However, in modern times, due to the evolution of the situation, meat has been fully open.

According to Hinayana Buddhism, monks used to eat three golden meats. However, the Mahayana Classic and the Brahma Sutra of the Bodhisattva precept say that meat should be cut. For example, in the fourth volume of Kitamoto's Nirvana Sutra, the Buddha told Mahayana and other disciples not to eat all the meat, and the eater was offended at this time. Among the 48 light precepts in the Brahma Sutra, there is also a meat-eating precept, which means that eating meat will cut off the seeds of compassion, so all bodhisattvas are not allowed to eat the meat of all beings unless they are seriously ill. In addition, entering the Lengga Sutra, digging the Shenluo Sutra in the center and binding the Elephant Sutra are all centered on great compassion, which runs counter to the practice of Bodhisattva. Therefore, mainland monks are forbidden to eat all kinds of meat.

In the history of Buddhism in China, there were quite a few vegetarians. As the emperor, Liang Wudi advocated abstinence from killing and vegetarianism, which had the greatest influence on later generations. After Sui and Tang Dynasties, Buddhist precepts were very popular according to Brahma Sutra, among which the meat precepts greatly strengthened the importance of vegetarianism. Therefore, since the Tang and Song Dynasties, vegetarianism has become one of the main characteristics of monks in the Han nationality Buddhism.

◎ Appendix 1: (excerpt) By Holmes Welch, translated by Han, Chapter 4, Section 3.

China Temple pays attention not to the time of eating, but to the nature of food. In China, monks are not allowed to eat fish, meat, eggs, cheese products, wine, pickled garlic and other irritating vegetables, or are not used to eating these foods. Buddha once said that family members can eat fish and meat that are not slaughtered for them. In Shangbei, a Buddhist country, monks eat food in bowls, including fish, but they can't have special requirements for food. Monks in China generally don't go out for alms. Their food is prepared by temples, grown and purchased by themselves, or the tenant farmers pay the land rent. In this case, if they eat meat, it is hard to say that it is unintentional. Moreover, diet control is an ancient tradition in China, and the smooth introduction of Buddhism into China also benefited from this tradition. China people are convinced that if a person gives up a desire, he will gain magical power. Therefore, monks who don't eat meat can play a greater role in Buddhist work. If the family knew that the temple ate meat, they would not sponsor it. Some monasteries refuse to let foreign tourists spend the night for fear that they will eat and drink with meat in their rooms. When the end of World War II was announced, the mayor of Qingdao asked the abbot of Zhanshan Temple if he could prepare beer for American generals at the upcoming celebration of the temple. As a result, this request was rejected.

Some temples are not so strict. There is a book about foreigners who used to live in temples and had feasts, and monks even raised their glasses to propose a toast. According to a source, small temples in rural areas of Shandong Province allow monks to drink and eat meat because it is a local habit.

In a model temple like Jinshan, there is no example of violating fasting regulations. They eat rice, porridge, tofu, radish and cauldron every day. The latter is the most famous, and it is called Arhat cuisine. The origin of its name is that it is composed of 18 kinds of green vegetables, while there are just 18 kinds of arhat dishes. On the first day, eighth day, fifteenth day and twenty-third day of the lunar calendar, add some rich dishes, such as mushrooms, noodles and noodles. In addition, if believers fast, they will add vegetables. Fasting is the main way to gain merit.

◎ Appendix II: Taixu's The Truth that Buddhism Don't Eat Meat (excerpt from the fourth issue of Jueshe Series)

Influenced by oriental civilization, the western nationalities in coastal areas gradually changed their habits of eating meat and drinking blood from animal nature. Therefore, some philosophers, such as Dourgen and Tai, advocated the principle of not eating, and their beliefs became more and more. China scholars in Europe and the United States are rumored to be from China. I didn't know that CITIC in China had been following Buddhism for thousands of years. Although we want to show the beauty of different Buddhism, we are following the principle of not eating meat advocated by Europe and America, which is based on scientific truth, but only on health problems and moral progress, so it is absolutely different from Buddhist people who don't eat meat! I don't know that the real reasons why Buddhism doesn't eat meat include health problems and moral promotion. The so-called doctrine of not eating meat based on scientific truth in Europe and America has only a few real reasons why Buddhism does not eat meat.

According to the scientific principle of not eating meat, it is said that the meat food of ordinary people, after being tested by doctors, knows that it contains the most toxic substances, which will affect the brain, pollute the blood, and cause diseases such as gastrointestinal blood collaterals, and these diseases are often caused by meat. Among them are the seeds of infectious diseases, which are particularly fierce! Only people who don't eat meat can avoid it, which is also good for health. The meat that ordinary people eat comes from killing animals. As far as things are concerned, man is also one of the animals. Eating meat is no different from tigers and wolves eating sheep and deer or predators hurting themselves. Therefore, if we push human beings to eat meat to the maximum, we will eat people before us. Psychologically speaking, living a good life is the common nature of human beings, which enhances the original virtue and allows this bad habit inherited from carnivores to be tolerated, so there is no urgent need to get rid of it. This is also good for people who don't eat meat when they enter Germany. If we advance this theory, the hygienist will not defend himself, and will not kill animals because he does not eat meat, that is, he will defend the lives of other things. Those who enter morality not only enter morality, but also reduce the cruelty of killing people because they don't eat meat and increase their loving personality, that is, enter the morality of others. If so, please use the words of Buddha.

Buddhism advocates not eating meat, and there are countless stories about the Tripitaka. Today, I quote the Mahayana Shurangama Sutra as proof:

I see that I am a relative and all the filth has grown up. I'm afraid all the people are born, so I shouldn't eat it. All meat, garlic and wine, if they are unclean, practitioners should stay away. I often leave sesame oil and perforated beds. I am frightened by insects. Diet gives birth to alienation, alienation gives birth to ill feelings, and ill feelings come from greed, so we should not eat. Evil consciousness produces greed, the heart is intoxicated by greed, ecstasy grows with love, and life and death are not free. Killing for profit and taking meat with money are all bad karma, and death is called prison. Don't want, don't teach, beg, these three names are pure, there is no such thing as meat in the world. I am responsible for eating! They eat each other, die in evil animals, stink and go crazy, so they shouldn't eat. Hunters Chatoro and Turro Chadi were born in these species. They both eat meat. I am not ashamed to eat, and my life is often crazy, which makes all buddhas, bodhisattvas and voices disgusted. Such as threatening big clouds, nirvana, central excavation, this shurangama sutra, I cut meat. Look first, smell first, suspect first, the meat is broken. Because of its bad habits, fools make a wrong distinction. If you are insatiable, you will eat, and if you have food, you will not enter the holy road. In the future, all beings in the world will say, "I am innocent to say this, and the Buddha will listen to me and wait for dinner." Pure food is still like medicine, just like thinking about meat. Therefore, practitioners know the number and beg. Carnivore's back is relieved, and it violates the holy appearance, which makes all beings terrible, so they should not eat. I said that those who live in kindness are often tired of leaving. Lions and tigers should swim together. If you don't eat anything, such as wine and meat, you will be born with saints, wealth and wisdom. "

There are eight reasons for not eating meat. Man and beast are sentient beings, living and dying together with the industry, and the cycle is uncertain. Therefore, they have never been robbed. They were all fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, brothers, sisters, husband and wife, friends and flesh and blood, and their nature was in jeopardy. They love each other, just like now. Why not save them from dying, but have the heart to eat their meat as a meal? Pigs, sheep, etc. They are dirty, they store feces inside and rely on mud outside, just like cesspits, they also collect pus. Why do they call themselves people? They are so clean that they are useless to maggots and dogs. Moreover, the meat eaten by human beings today is crude and particularly poisonous, which makes people bloody and makes people faint and depressed. Like garlic and garlic, it also increased their enthusiasm, helped them smoke, and the stench was fumigated and dyed into a plague! Born to be human. What is human nature? Kindness, wisdom and courage, constant compassion, save the suffering of all beings, and give them in a clean way to make them realize. If you are sad for your stupidity, you should always care about your own thoughts, and don't disobey them slightly, causing suspicion and jealousy. Why kill life, feed on its flesh and blood, let all beings escape in terror, and regard the murderer as afraid to approach, take advantage of the gap to think! All sentient beings desire, and all flesh and blood desire. If people eat more desire, they will eat meat more greedily because of desire, and then they will become animals! The more lewd you are, the more you kill, the more lewd you are, the more you kill, the more you die, the more promiscuous you are, the more you live and die. What people eat comes from killing things, and the habit of killing things is passed down, and killing things moves with time. The heart of killing things cannot be removed from people's hearts, from small to large, from things to people. Fire covers the sky, knives cover the ground, people kill each other, killing one after another, thousands of miles away, rivers of blood! People kill people, feed animals, kill animals and eat meat, and the same is true of cause and effect. Because there are people who eat meat, there are people who hunt executioners, so that those who specialize in killing people to make money are carnivores. Futuli is a murderer and robber. It is unwise for Peter to be caught with almost no money in the crime of robbery and murder, and carnivores indirectly make a part of human beings become murderers, which is not only unwise, but also ruthless! You don't have to eat meat, you have to eliminate the idea of killing, you can eliminate the idea of killing, you can be merciful, you can be merciful, you can cause peace, you can lead to peace without disaster. Therefore, if you live long, you can expect to be a saint, and the world will be clean, which will always ensure your happiness. From these eight meanings, we can also know a little about the Buddhist principle of not eating meat.

In other words, those who don't eat meat only kill animals and don't eat them; However, plants also have creatures, and eating plants without eating animals cannot achieve good health! Answer: Although animals and plants have the same life, animals can make us feel greedy and afraid of death. Horrible cries can touch my heart and make my heart feel sad and uneasy, but plants don't, so eating plants doesn't hurt our sympathy. It can be said that if you don't eat meat, it won't hurt your life at all. When you go further, you can't use it as a reason to eat meat. And we can practice meditation, and for a long time, meditation is food, so even plants can not eat it!

In other words, human beings in this world are oppressed by various powers, especially when they are killed by animals. If we save people, how can we take time to eat their meat without killing animals? I don't know whether he doesn't eat meat, love animals or love others. Human suffering is close at hand, so it is urgent to save people. However, people who don't eat meat never mean not to save lives, and can they say that they want to eat meat to save lives?

Or there are religious gods who are no different from civil servants. They are called animals and other flesh-and-blood people. This is the reason why Emperor Tiandi thinks that people eat, and people who don't eat meat are especially blessed to enjoy this delicious food! A person who is born with things thinks that it is benevolence and righteousness for others to eat, so why should people be born with things? You are the emperor of heaven, why do you still live on food? Man's life is not for the food of other things, but also for the rest of animals. That's ridiculous. Nothing is more ridiculous! People eat the flesh and blood of animals, but they don't know that gnats suck human blood, tigers and wolves spit human flesh, and they also eat human flesh. However, people's lives are also designed for mosquitoes, tigers and wolves.

Or tigers, wolves, gnats and other things are harmful to people. People will harm others if they don't harm themselves! However, this is a question of giving up killing, which is a bit far from carnivorism. People who kill for their lives are not people who can harm others, such as tigers and wolves. People never thought that meat products were the same. The first is to stop the verbal killing, which is not impossible. Compassionate achievements, violent, although gnats and locusts are not born, tigers and wolves are as docile as dog Kyle. Some people around here advocate vegetarianism, and their words are very serious. I am here to record one of the temples.

Or people love to eat meat, which is rooted in nature and is the freedom of human beings and should not be restricted. I don't know if I am addicted to lust. How can I call it freedom? If so, many people will be addicted to gambling, whoring, opium and murder! Does it also mean that gambling, whoring, smoking and killing are all free, and you don't have to quit? Everything only asks whether it is in line with the facts, and people's hobbies don't count. As medical experts say, meat is harmful to health. Man and beast are animals, there is no difference between them, and there is no difference in physiological organization. The evolution of the poor is slightly inferior. There are still many savage mountain fans in this world. Those who are not as clever as apes have sent people to kill mountain fans and then spit them out savagely. We must think it is a big monster! However, what's the difference between those who kill animals and those who spit? Eating meat does not conform to the truth, which is undoubtedly just, that is, hobbies should also be treated! It is human nature to curb meat addiction, which is not the case.

The purpose of people's diet is to meet the needs of the body. The human body is only composed of more than a dozen chemicals. Therefore, if there is one thing that can meet the needs of all substances in my body, it will achieve the purpose of diet without asking whether it is meat. For example, oil is injected into a lamp, but the material for burning fire must be provided, regardless of what kind of oil it is. In the past, people didn't procrastinate, so there were words like diet and sexual desire, but I didn't know that both of them had physiological functions. Originally, I didn't have great desires and hobbies, but I became a hobby because of my habits. The more accustomed the body is to using it, the more developed it is. Accustomed to eating meat is a desire for meat. For a long time, people have said that non-meat is not enough, but people think it is natural. The intercourse between men and women in Judah is not due to physiological functions, they have many, so they are used to lewdness and think it is natural. This is really a scientific fallacy! Vegetarian comrades who have practiced for decades don't eat meat. They all live in it. They don't particularly realize its pain and feel its sweetness. If you don't eat meat for a long time, you will hate meat and your strong appetite will naturally disappear. However, your physical strength will not be weak, and your spirit will improve day by day, not to mention your nature.