Tag: Veganism

An extended dialogue: S: Is it possible to use soy milk as one of the auspicious offering items instead of…

Below is the Japanese version of ‘Call Us By Our True Names’, as featured in the e-newsletter of Japan Vegetarian Society…

To Be Truly All-Embracing He presented himself to be free, free even to eat anything, open in an all-embracing way. But…

I used to take western medicine in general when I got sick, before I became vegan. After I became vegan,…

This graph is funny yet generally true! Perhaps the Buddha already knew this, which is why he specifically used the…

A Tit for a Tat (167) Tit: She’s gradually quitting meat-eating. Tat: Cutting but not cut? Tit: Yes – not…

A friend asked for my testimonial of how I become a Buddhist for sharing. Below is a short account… If…

Here is my mini sharing of His Holiness Dalai Lama’s 2010 Southeast Asia teaching tour. I felt very fortunate to…

Just sent this to the press: I refer to the letter ‘”No meat, no fish” ideology can disturb eco balance’…

At a wedding lunch of a friend, two of us were served vegetarian food. We took a peek at the…

Turning these defenseless animals into egg-producing machines with no consideration for their welfare whatsoever is a degradation of our own…

A conversation via instant messaging… Wyi: http://www.veganburg.com Wya: Yup, I know about it, but I have not got time to visit…

Question: Though it is wrong to kill animals for meat, isn’t it the karma of these animals to be killed?…

Q: Why eat plants? Don’t plants feel pain too? A: Plants are life forms but not sentient life – in…

If I were to summarise our mini pilgrimage to Taiwan, it would be 悲欣交集 (intertwinement of sadness and happiness). The…

Q: I once watched a Buddhist TV programme in a Taiwan in which the Master said that we should avoid…

Dear Sir, Someone sent me the below article. Can you comment on it? Thank you. With Metta, AIA Hi AIA, …

A TV program showed how some ‘special cows’ were reared with good food and even music – to make them…

Here is a very interesting piece of news from Vegetarian Society Singapore’s newsletter at http://www.vegetarian-society.org/node/1362#05 : The first people who…

A wholesale shop’s salesperson showed us a cellophane wrapped deer foetus, telling us that she is a ‘Buddhist’, and thinks…