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    It is not the case that Strict vegetarianism was impractical for traditional Tibetans

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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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    • 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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