Food of Sinful Demons: Meat Vegetarism and the Limits of Buddhism in Tibet, by Geoffrey Barstow

"Food of Sinful Demons" shows the centrality of vegetarism to the cultural history of Tibet through specific ways in whichnonreligious norms and ideals shaped regigious beliefs and practices. Barstow offers a detailed analysis of the debates over meat eating and vegetarism, from the first references to such in diet in the tenth century through the Chinese invasion in the 1950s.