Are monks allowed to keep pets?
My sister said the monk in her temple keep chicken in a coop!
Are monks allowed to keep pets?
Are monks allowed to keep pets?
“As the lamp consumes oil, the path realises Nibbana”
Re: Are monks allowed to keep pets?
I found the following past topic.
But the all about animals happen to be abandoned or the animal wonder about the temple.
Not about a animal husbandry keeping pets as an active action.
viewtopic.php?f=30&t=36119&p=540481&hilit=pets#p540481
But the all about animals happen to be abandoned or the animal wonder about the temple.
Not about a animal husbandry keeping pets as an active action.
viewtopic.php?f=30&t=36119&p=540481&hilit=pets#p540481
“As the lamp consumes oil, the path realises Nibbana”
Re: Are monks allowed to keep pets?
In commentary to Vinaya by Thanissaro Bhikkhu, it is said that a bhikkhu can not call some others pet and play with him, or feed it etc. Because the act of "deplacing some other's pet" can be considered as theft...
Maybe not relevant to the OP question, but something about bhikkhu-pet relationship that popped up...
Maybe not relevant to the OP question, but something about bhikkhu-pet relationship that popped up...
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"Form, feelings, perceptions, formations, consciousness - don't care about us, we don't exist for them"
"Form, feelings, perceptions, formations, consciousness - don't care about us, we don't exist for them"