2006-12-20 14:47:40 · 15 answers · asked by dafiahmad 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Dont be suprise if some budhist believer dont eat beef. I was suprise to find out this too. My colleague who is a budhist is saying so.
2006-12-20 15:02:28 · update #1
Cows are considered sacred. So anything from a cow like meat, dairy products or leather is not used or eaten.
2006-12-20 15:34:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hindu's avoidance of beef is based on kindness and respect for an animal. The basic difference is hate versus love and respect. Yes, there are numerous Hindus who eat meat but the results of such a karma is their own and nobody else's. The suffering that such deeds bring are visible all over the world. Immorality, cruelty , lack of ethical behavior etc are the results of it. In these times, incest , teen pregnancy, abortions, premarital sex , lack of respect for parents, Gurus and Saints is rampant. It is indeed in these times when it is the easiest and hardest to get moksha. Simple bhakti (devotion) and good karma are the shortest road to God but it is also hard due to the presence of the lustful activities all around you. If life is surrendered to God then the atmosphere has no effect on the devotee. Simple living and high thinking should be the basis of life. This is why the faces of most Hindus reflect a humility that the west finds hard to apprehend. For a Hindu, pain and pleasure have no meaning, these are considered just two ordinary states that are temporary. Life itself is temporary.
2006-12-20 23:22:35 · answer #2 · answered by donttalkjustplay05 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
While most contemporary Hindus do not worship the cow (though many venerate her), the cow still holds an honored place in Hindu society as a symbol of unselfish giving among all animals. Cow-slaughter is legally banned in almost all states of the Indian Union
2006-12-20 22:52:32 · answer #3 · answered by Biker B 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Buddhists do eat beef. Those who do not are because of their own personal choice and have nothing to do with Buddhism. As for the Hindus, they do not eat beef because the cow is a sacrate animal to them. This is because one of their gods once visited the earth in a form of a cow.
2006-12-20 22:53:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hindus Do not eat beef, this situation has two reasons one is the religious and other much important than religion is Socioeconomic.
Hinduism is the oldest know religion to mankind aging almost 4000 years, thought there a bit confusion with Confucianism (they clam to be oldest religion, thought it is not)
Right from ages central Indian grass lands were occupied by society whose much of the economies dependent of animal husbandry specially milk giving cattle's. In fact India has the highest population of cattle on the planet, other wise per capital milk yield is much less to Netherlands. And India host the biggest cattle fair on the planet.
As much of th Central India, Hindi speaking peoples were more dependent upon their cattle's they economies, there social statuses and ultimately social life (religion) reflected their love care and possessiveness of this cattle's. Hence Hindus abstain from slaughtering this cattle's for flesh instead they received milk and other edibles from this cattle's.
As the life and economical status was much depended upon the cattle's, religious sentiments and ethics too made it compulsory for Hindu to respect cattle and abstain from slaughtering them, hence Hinduism strictly prohibits saluting cows(found more in central India rather than buffaloes).
And to propagate non violence, the core of Buddhism. Buddhist cease to harm any living being! hence no live stock in their diet!
2006-12-20 23:27:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A lot if Buddhists view the cow/bull/buffalo as working animals that have earned the right to die of old age as a thank-you for all their help.
2006-12-20 22:53:26 · answer #6 · answered by Bart S 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In Hinduism, the cow is considered sacred and its protection is a recurrent theme in which she is symbolic of abundance, of the sanctity of all life and of the earth that gives much while asking nothing in return.
2006-12-20 22:54:31 · answer #7 · answered by Justsyd 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
beef is from cow and a long time ago, the cow was pretty much everything. It helped harvest food, was transportation, was worshipped. Now technology has changed a lot of that, but it's just a custom that stuck.
2006-12-20 22:49:57 · answer #8 · answered by JIMMY j 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Cow's are beef! Cow's are sacred animals to vegetarian Hindus, I don't know about Buddhists.
2006-12-20 22:50:37 · answer #9 · answered by Faerie loue 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
i dont think a hindu can not eat beef if a hindu eat beef nothing going to happen, it is individual hindu s choice to eat beef/meat or not
2006-12-21 05:22:39 · answer #10 · answered by nirmalketan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋