Animals in Buddhism

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Religion

 

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Geraldine D

 

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May 18, 2016

 

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University

 

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This precept alone is pretty much the main reason that Buddhists tolerate and accept the overpopulation of dogs in urban cities of Thailand. It is taught that if one living being harms any other living being, whether human, animal, plant, or even mineral, that they will essentially pay for it in the end due to the concept of karma...
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Not only that, but according to the Buddha in the Angulimaliya Sutra, since all beings share the same "Dhatu" (spiritual Principle or Essence) and are intimately related to one another, killing and eating other sentient creatures is equivalent to a form of self-killing and cannibalism. By reading some of the jatakas, we learn that in a few of Siddhartha Gautama’s previous lives, animals are frequently involved as either insignificant or main characters, and it is not uncommon for the Bodhisattva to appear as an animal as well...
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