Can Kyoto's Buddhist Cuisine Teach Us All To Eat Better? • Discoverology

Can Kyoto’s Buddhist Cuisine Teach Us All To Eat Better?

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From the Buddhist perspective, cooking is a form of spiritual practice that produces nourishment to prepare the body for hard work and meditation. Its goals are nothing less than permanent enlightenment, nirvana, the fundamental transformation of the human mind and society.

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