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    Many Tibetans came to accept meat eating as a necessary p... — Carmelics
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    Many Tibetans came to accept meat eating as a necessary part of their lifestyle

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    • 1.Strict vegetarianism was impractical given Tibet's climate and food production constraints
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    • 2.Calorie-dense animal products were required for survival in cold Tibetan conditions
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    • 1.Buddhist monastic communities in Tibet maintained vegetarian practices, demonstrating that abstention was institutionally achievable even in harsh climates.
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    • 2.The claim conflates ecological constraint with moral necessity, obscuring that dietary choice remained contingent on social role and institutional context.
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    • 1.Peter Harvey and Ian Harris both document that Mahāyāna sutras like the Laṅkāvatāra explicitly prohibit meat eating on grounds of compassion, creating doctrinal tension with Tibetan practice.
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    • 2.Framing meat eating as 'necessary' naturalizes a culturally specific accommodation that Tibetan masters like Patrul Rinpoche themselves criticized as a rationalization.
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    The Tibetan plateau is at a high altitude and has a very cold, dry climate. Over much of Tibet, the only form of food production possible is nomadic pastoralism, with sheep and yaks as the major sources of food. Moreover, under premodern conditions, and given the cold weather, people living in Tibet needed to eat calorie-dense food in order to survive. A strict vegetarianism was therefore quite impractical. As a result, many Tibetans came to accept meat eating as a necessary part of their lifest
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