熊: Jāmbavān (जाम्बवान): Jambavan or Jamvanta is a bear in Hinduism and believe to lived from Treta Yuga to Dvapara Yuga.
獅子:Narasimha, the Man-Lion (Nara = man, simha = lion), appeared in the Satya Yuga. Represents a newborn baby, hairy and cranky, bawling and full of blood.
老虎: Shiva is often seated on a tiger skin or wears a tiger skin, with the tiger representing the mind.
其實,我想佛陀百分之百還禁吃牛肉,儘管那位長老的文章里似乎沒提。因為"Nandi (Sanskrit: नंदी), is the bull which Shiva rides and the gate keeper of Shiva and Parvati in Hindu mythology." 要是佛教徒吃牛肉,婆羅門教徒不得。。。。
錯誤。"Theravada also believes that the Buddha allowed the monks to choose a vegetarian diet." 所以漢地制定素食的戒律正確。其實早期佛教與素食有不解的淵源。著名印度史家Percival Spear在The History of India中談到阿育王的Edicts時指出vegetarianism是佛教不殺生主張的自然結果(57頁第二行)。 佛陀本人對素食的態度並未跳出同樣托缽乞食的婆羅門教的傳統。都是總體上素食,但並不絕對排斥肉食。 婆羅門教是有素食的傳統, 但一些婆羅門也吃肉。