r death." According to an excerpt, "Animal Rights and Our Human Relationship to the Biosphere," by Ronald Epstein of Dharma Realm Buddhist University, "Human beings do not have a privileged special place above and beyond that of the rest of life...The world is not a creation specifically for the benefit and pleasure of human beings," (A Buddhism Perspective on Animal Rights, 4). In this belief, the central principle became known as "Ahimsa, or the prohibition against the bringing of harm or death to any living being, and so eating meat was forbidden in most cases," (A Buddhist Perspective on Animal Rights, 4)
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