Major Tibetan Buddhist Lama goes vegetarian!

[Guest guest]

Personal note: I began the Buddhist path with the 16th Karmapa - who was a bird

lover and I tended his birds. This news below is about the younger generation

the 17th Karmapa. The Karmapa is head of the Kagyu lineage and the Dalai Lama

is head of the Gelugpa lineage. There are four major lineages in Tibetan

Buddhism. This news comes 30 years later than I wanted but turns a kitchen in a

major monastery where I lived in the late 70's vegetarian finally. I hope all of

you working directly with animals gets this feeling of joy each time you save a

life and now I feel some peace as well.

Keep the faith and amen. blessings, Weintraub, Seattle, WA USA

 

For more about the Tibetan Buddhist vegetarian movement in India please see:

www.freeanimal.org

 

http://www.shabkar.org/teachers/tibetanbuddhism/orgyen_trinle_dorje.htm

 

Orgyen Trinle Dorje (1985-)

H.H. Orgyen Trinle Dorje, Karmapa XVII*, is vegetarian since a few years.

At January 3, 2007, he made a strong statement against eating meat within his

monasteries and centers. With immediate effect:

 

a.. No meat is to be prepared in the kitchen of any Kagyu Monastery or

Centre.

b.. No one is to be involved in the business of buying and selling meat

– for all of his students this practice must stop.

c.. There is to be no killing of animals on Kagyu premises.

d.. Karmapa is aware of monks in robes going to buy meat and does not

want to see this ever again.

His Holiness also quoted spiritual masters from the past who had

condemned the practice of using Tsok (offerings during a gathering) as an excuse

for eating meat and drinking alcohol. Leaving absolutely no room for

interpretation, Karmapa said that anyone who uses meat and alcohol as Tsok is

not part of Karmapa’s lineage.**

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