Buddhist cuisine  Buddhist cuisine is a kind of East Asian
cuisine which is followed by some believers of Buddhism. It is a
type of vegetarian cuisine.  Vegetarian cuisine is known as
zhāicài ("(Buddhist) vegetarian food") in China, shōjin ryōri
("devotion cuisine") in Japan, sachal eumsik ("temple food") in
Korea and by many other names in other countries.  Buddhism and
vegetarianism  Buddhism, along with Jainism, recognizes that
even eating vegetables could contribute to the indirect killing
of living beings as animal life is destroyed as farmers plough
land. Jainism consequently considers death by starvation as the
ultimate practice of non violence, while Buddhism considers
extreme self-mortification to be undesirable for attaining
enlightenment.  Both Mahayana and Theravada thinking is that
meat eating in and of itself does not constitute a violation of
the Five Precepts which prohibit one from directly harming life.
Pali/Sanskrit term for monks and nuns means one who seek alms.
However, when monks and nu