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The Buddhist scriptures give opposite answers in his name. In the Pali texts, a general named Siha has meat fetched for a meal for the Buddha and his monks. The Buddha then rules that a monk may not knowingly eat meat from an animal killed for him. Elsewhere he says meat may be eaten if the monk has not seen, heard or suspected that it was killed for him. In the Lankavatara Sutra, a Mahayana scripture, the Buddha forbids meat to everyone. He says he has never permitted it to anyone, and that the claim he allowed it to his monks or himself has no foundation. Its own translator calls that chapter a later addition. So one of the two puts words in the Buddha's mouth. The Qur'an gives its food laws in God's (﷾) own words.

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