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Dr. Wu Tingfang, the former Ambassador from China to the United States, told his friends that he would return to America in fifty years. He said this as he left the United States. He was then over sixty years old. His reason for expecting long life is that he lives entirely on dishes which contain no meat.

Buddha said that if you leave meat alone you will live forever. Therefore the priests and nuns belonging to the Buddhist religion live on dishes which contain no meat.

There are many of these dishes.