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    Strict vegetarianism was impractical for traditional Tibe... — Carmelics
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    Strict vegetarianism was impractical for traditional Tibetans

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    • 1.The Tibetan plateau has a cold, dry climate that limits food production to nomadic pastoralism
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    • 2.Sheep and yaks are the major sources of food in Tibet
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    • 3.Under premodern conditions, people living in Tibet needed to eat calorie-dense food to survive
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    • 1.Ethical obligations in Buddhist philosophy are not negated by difficulty or inconvenience, only by genuine impossibility of alternative action.
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    • 2.Scholarly accounts like Geoffrey Samuel's 'Civilized Shamans' document that barley, legumes, and dairy provided viable non-meat dietary foundations in Tibet.
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    • 3.A shift away from maximum meat consumption toward reduced consumption was practically achievable, making 'strict' a misleading threshold for the impracticability argument.
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    • 1.Buddhist monastic communities in Tibet maintained vegetarian practices despite harsh conditions, demonstrating institutional vegetarianism was achievable.
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    • 2.The existence of viable exceptions within the same environmental constraints undermines impracticability as a universal categorical claim.
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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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