Gautama Buddha died from food poisoning after consuming tainted pork.
The basis of a vegetarian diet lies in compassion, i.e. not taking the lives of living/sentient beings. In Chinese Buddhism, the monks practice a strict vegetarian diets while the followers are highly encouraged to do so. By consuming less meat, the demand for meat will be lowered as well thus reducing the killing of animals.
Buddha and his followers did not have a strict vegetarian diet, but only consume what was offered to them (alms giving). Buddhist monks in Nepal or Thailand do not have vegetarian diets as well, they just eat what is offered to them.
And about the 1st and 15th day of the Chinese Lunar Calendars, most Chinese Buddhists say that those are auspicious days to refrain from eating meat and your good deeds would be multiplied (kinda sounds like x2 exp to me), though personally I would say that a balanced diet of vegetables and meat would lead to a healthier lifestyle.
About not eating beef, since Siddharta Gautama (Buddha) was born in India, the people who offered him food are mostly Hindus. It is most likely that they refrain from eating beef out of respect for the people and also for the animal- cows were sacred for plowing the fields, giving milk, carriages and so forth. Followers of the Kuan Yin Bodhisatva are also refrained from eating beef, though I'm not sure of the reason and I'm too lazy to find out why.
My whole family's Buddhist and Indonesian.
[QUOTE=Vinze;24077131]Not really.[/QUOTE]
I'm p sure we had a Chinese member from china on here
I don't remember who it was though.
also I'm part chinese
But I'm Hmong
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