Do monks eat eggs?

Monks don't eat eggs. You can't eat eggs for monks. In fact, it has been clearly stated in the Buddhist scriptures. In the Buddhist tripitaka, all sperm eggs have the opportunity to grow into life, so eggs are not edible in Buddhism. Buddhism pays attention to not harming life, so you can't eat fertilized eggs. Although unfertilized eggs can't be counted as living things, they are also inedible. Otherwise, according to this logic, it becomes the truth that living animals can't eat and dead animals can eat, which violates the purpose of Buddhism.

In fact, it has been clearly stated in the Buddhist scriptures that eggs cannot be eaten. There is a cloud in the Buddhist tripitaka: "All eggs are inedible, and all have children." Buddhism believes that all sperm eggs have a chance to grow into life, so they are fishy and inedible, as are eggs and fish eggs.

But in history, an emperor gave a monk eggs and forced him to break the precepts. When Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty went down to the south of the Yangtze River, he made three pilgrimages to Tianning Temple in Changzhou. One afternoon, Gan Long came to Daxiong Hall with a drunken mood, and deliberately distributed a boiled egg to every monk in the whole temple, and asked them to eat it within seven steps and write a poem, otherwise they would be punished for cheating the monarch.

Qianlong wanted to test whether they obeyed the imperial edict or the Buddhist rules. Hundreds of monks in the whole temple trembled with fear and stared at the abbot in his seventies. The old abbot knew the emperor's intention and was as cool as a cucumber. I saw him smiling, holding a boiled egg in his hand, and singing loudly and unhurriedly: "Chaos is a shell with no skin, no bones and no hair. The old monk will take you to the Western Heaven to avoid being stabbed on earth. " After listening to it, Qianlong repeatedly praised "Wonderful! Gao Cai! " Everyone breathed a sigh of relief

The old abbot wrote this poem in a hurry, cleverly describing the egg as a living vegetarian, using things as metaphors for people, not breaking the precepts and not following the imperial edict. It can be seen that the old abbot's intelligence is agile and his cultivation is extraordinary.

Temple recruitment conditions

1. With the consent of parents, guardians or spouses, bring the written materials agreed by parents (divorce certificate is required for married people), ID card, household registration certificate and medical certificate to the temple where you are destined, and agree to accept you.

2. The limbs are complete. Short hands and feet, twisted hands and feet, paralysis, polio patients, leprosy patients, crooked heads, etc. People who can't walk normally can't be banned from becoming monks.

3, the facial features are correct. Blind, cross-eyed, deaf, deaf, crooked mouth, rabbit mouth or missing mouth, mute, etc. , are not allowed to become a monk. )

4, no infectious diseases and other serious diseases that affect the health of others. (such as AIDS, various skin diseases, etc. ).)

5, there is no debt problem. (such as bankruptcy, business failure and debt. )

6. Persons who have not violated national laws (criminal) or are involved in litigation. (refers to a person wanted by the police. If he committed a crime, he was released from prison after serving his sentence. )

7. Age 7 -60 years old.

8. mentally sound. (refers to diseases that will lose consciousness, reason and behavior without any mental illness, such as neurasthenia, schizophrenia and epilepsy. )

9. Mental health is normal. Bisexuality is not allowed to become a monk. )

Monks who ask to become monks are deemed to meet the requirements of becoming monks by finding out their identity and origin, and have passed the inspection of the monk group for more than one year (what to do in the test stage: recite the Five Classics, learn the rules of Misha, and learn the basic knowledge of Buddhism. ), you can worship a monk and a woman as tonsors, hold a tonsorial ceremony in front of the Buddha another day, put on monk's clothes, change your surname and release them, and the master will take the dharma name and dharma number as required and issue them to the official.