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Vegetarianism in Buddhism
In Buddhism, the views on vegetarianism vary from school to school. In the Theravada and Vajrayana schools the act of eating meat is not considered wrong; in Mahayana schools they generally prefer a vegetarian diet, based on the firm insistence by the Buddha in certain Mahayana sutras that his followers should not eat meat or fish.
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