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Some Present-Day Religions with High Regard for Animals Buddhism One of the most important sanctions of the Buddhist faith is the concept of ahimsa, or refraining from the destruction of life ( Regenstein 1991 , p. 234). According to Buddhist belief, humans do not...
The turtle who saved lives Jatakas are stories of previous lifetimes of the Buddha. A story that is often depicted in Buddhist art is the one where theBuddha in a previous life is a Bodhisattva-turtle (that is: a turtle who has vowed to save all sentient beings). A group...
In the Lankavatara Sutra Buddha Gautama gave us some reasons for forbidding meat-eating. 1) Those animals have been our parents. 2) All kinds of...