(1) Gautama Buddha ate pork. The practice is to not cause it to be killed for you. I knew a cook who was a full-time Tibetan monk for over 10 years who cooked meat at the restaurant where he worked. Buddhism is not a kind of perfectionism.
(2) Buddhist practitioners at least in the Japanese tradition do not refer to Buddhism as a "religion", but as a "practice".
(1) Gautama Buddha ate pork. The practice is to not cause it to be killed for you. I knew a cook who was a full-time Tibetan monk for over 10 years who cooked meat at the restaurant where he worked. Buddhism is not a kind of perfectionism.
(2) Buddhist practitioners at least in the Japanese tradition do not refer to Buddhism as a "religion", but as a "practice".
Or a philosophy line Taoism / Zen