Is it true that Buddhists are not allowed to eat pork?

Question

I heard they can't eat that.. or if that is not the case, then what are they not allowed to eat?.. and why?

Answer 1

I thought they were all vegetarians or vegans

Answer 2

No. The first precept is to abstain from harming or killing living beings. Many Buddhists are vegetarians but the Buddha did not prohibit the eating of meat. He allowed his early followers to eat meat providing the animal had not been specifically killed for them to eat. It is said that the Buddha died of food poisoning after eating contaminated pork. Some Buddhists therefore do eat meat but quite a debate exists within the Buddhist community about whether such practice breaks the first precept at least indirectly

Answer 3

All that you need to disprove that Buddhists are not allowed to eat pork is to go to any restaurant owned by Chinese or Thais. Many will have Pork on the menu and Buddha somewhere in the restaurant. This is true everyplace I've been in the world. That includes Hong Kong and the Mainland as well as several other Asian Countries.

Answer 4

There is no real thing Buddhist can't eat, but then for the sake of compassion towards animals, some Buddhist are vegetarian.

Hi Michelle, there are some errors in your link there, I had never heard of stories of Buddha died of eating contaminated pork :D.... I think that link got to update where they got the information from.

Answer 5

Most of Buddhism has no rules like that. There also is no belief system. However there are some places where that is not true, and someone has assumed this authority to tell people what to do and what to eat. Usually though, of those that have such rules, it is about whether or not to eat meat at all, not about which meat is or is not ok. Most Buddhists eat most anything, while some are vegetarians.

Answer 6

No, that is not a rule in their belief system. Although, some groups of Buddhists will not eat any animal, because they don't believe in killing animals. They respect all life forms. That doesn't seem to make too much sense to me, because plants are life forms. They eat plants. Washing your hands with soap kills bacteria. To each his own, though. If they want to be vegetarians, that means more steak and lobster for me.

Answer 7

Some Buddhists which is a kind of reformed Hinduism will not eat cow. But true Buddhism has no dietary prohibitions.

Answer 8

a lot of buddhists are vegetarian, most devout buddhists at least. the idea being that everything has equal weight of soul, all being part of a greater soul, so to step on an ant is to hurt yourself, or to kill a pig, cow, etc.
it is not an idea that most buddhists i have known to push upon others however, which is good, because i love bacon and buddhists.

Answer 9

Basically, from what I understand, although I'm struggling to find info on it, the Buddhist principles basically guide them away from eating any part of an animal, which I guess would make them vegetarian, of sorts.

Answer 10

Bhagwan Buddh was against killing of all living birds, animals, sea animals, insects for food.

Bhagwan Buddh was not a Buddhist.

There is a story,that one day a monk of Bhagwan Buddh was returning from his alms round and by accident a dead pray of the flying Bird(kite) fell in to the bowl of that monk, he was confused ,since it was told by Bhagwan Buddh that what ever is givenin the bowl one has to consume, so he went to Bhagwan Buddh and told the story, Bhagwan thought & said that it is exceptionl case, so Bhagwan Buddh said to that monk that you have not killed the pray and this is an exceptionl case daily this is not going to happen since it is an accident, so you can consume the food in your bowl.
But the exception became a rule and all the Buddhits became non -vegetarians.

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Answer 11

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