"In the Theravaada Buddhism especially, there is no area for any perception in God, or his prophet or his incarnation. Gautama the Buddha was neither an incarnation nor a prophet. It is an buy consisting of monks and layperson, devoted to ethical perform by way of the 8 Fold Path and the teachings of the Buddha. Though non-vegetarianism is not unfamiliar among the Bauddhas, the Buddha himself advocated vegetarianism as component of non-violence.