Are there any specific dietary habits in Buddhism?
No. Some people misunderstand that when one take refuge to become a Buddhist, one needs to be a vegetarian. This not so; one need not be a vegetarian to be a Buddhist. Out of compassion, lay Buddhists often choose to be vegetarian as they do not want to eat other sentient beings flesh just to satisfy their desire of taste. Also, some Buddhists fast after noontime on certain days of each month to symbolize the purification of body and mind. Such practice originated at the Buddha’s time when the Buddha and his disciples went for alms and ate in the morning but fasted in the latter half of the day.
