DON’T OPEN THE DOOR
Intoxication can cause heedlessness, negligence, and danger. JUSTIN LEE surveys the Buddhist traditions that abstain from all intoxicants.
Certain Buddhist traditions, chief amongst them the Theravadin school centered in Southeast Asia, have long held an austere perspective on the use of intoxicants. This view is grounded in a strict interpretation of Buddhism’s fifth precept.
The five precepts, which constitute the foundation of Buddhist
