In the seventh chapter of the Angulimala Sutra, a Mahayana sutra as rare as the Udamwara flower, Manjushri asks: "Is it true that the buddhas do not eat meat due to Buddha nature?" The Buddha said: "It is exactly like that, Manjushri. In the sequence of lives during our beginningless and endless coming and going in Samsara there is no being that has not been our mother, that has not been our sister. Even dogs have been our fathers before. The world of those lives is like a play. Therefore, since our own flesh and that of others is the same flesh, the buddhas do not eat meat. Furthermore, Manjushri, the sphere of all beings is the dharmadhatu. As this would constitute eating flesh of the same sphere, the buddhas do not eat meat."