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Buddhism teaches prohibits murder, but some Buddhist monks self-immolate. Is this inline with Buddhist teachings or contrary to them?

yuttadhammo
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Human life is very rare and precious. Also when doing this the chances are that your last thought will not be good leading to rebirth in a lower relm. So in my opinion and general consensus in my tradition is that this should not be done. Also in doing this the following conditions of killing is met:

  • You know that yourself is a living being
  • You device a method to for self immolate
  • You follow through with the intention
  • As a result you die
Suminda Sirinath S. Dharmasena
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