On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Thaths <[email protected]> wrote: > The death after eating pork (spoiled or poisoned) is pretty widely > accepted. Buddhist priests, having to live off of hand outs from the > lay community, were not (and still are not in places like Thailand, > Laos, etc.) picky eaters. After all, clinging to food taboos is just > another form of clinging.
I was not bringing up the vegetarianism taboo here, rather pointing out that even an innocuous detail like what he ate is subject to interpretation. Clinging to details is just another form of clinging - rather feel free to imagine your own version of the Buddha and of the world :-)
