• Zoroaster / Zarathustra (628?-551?)
  
  • Español - Zoroastro 
• Mahavira (599-527 BC)
• Buddha (?563-483 BC) - vegetarian?
• Italiano Budda (?563-483 a.C.) - vegetariano?
• Español - Buda
• Magyar - Buddha (?563-483 BC) - vegetarianus?
• Cyrus the Great (c.520BC)
• King Asoka of India (273?-232 BC)
• M R Bawa Muhaiyaddeen - a modern day sufi (Muslim) saint, source: The M R Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship - www.bmf.org
  

• Vegetarianism and Vegetarians in Japan
  
  • Español - El Vegetarianismo y los Vegetarianos en Japón
    
  • Français - Végétarisme et Végétariens au Japon
  • Indonesia - Vegetarianisme dan Vegetarian di Jepang
  • Magyar - Vegetarianizmus es a vegetarianusok Japanban
• The Vegetarian Movement in Sri Lanka
• China & Vegetarianism
• Religion & Vegetarianism

Complete Old Books:

1. Outlines of Jainism (PDF 7mb) by Jagmanderlal Jaini M.A., Indore. Pub. Cambridge, 1916. Founded by Mahavira, 599 BC - avoids all harm to animal life.
2. The Kalpa sutra, and Nava tatva: two works illustrative of the Jain religion and philosophy (PDF 7mb) trans. & appendix by J. Stevenson, Bombay. Pub. London, 1818
3. Jaina Sutras Part I (PDF 22mb) trans. Hermann Jacobi, 1884 (reprinted India 1964).
4. Texts from the Buddhist canon, commonly known as Dhammapada, with accompanying narratives (PDF 9mb) trans. Samuel Beal, Prof. of Chinese, London, 1878. Buddha (?563-483 BC)
5. The Lankavatara Sutra; a Mahayana text (PDF 9mb) trans. Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, London, 1932
6. Asoka, the Buddhist emperor of India (PDF 9mb) by Vincent A. Smith M.R.A.S., Oxford, 1901. Asoka (273?-232 BC) banned all animal slaughter in India.
7. The laws of Manu (PDF 36mb) trans. George Bühler, Oxford, 1886. Somewhat disputed Hindu texts... does not prohibit meat eating but: p.174, Law 48: "Meat can never be obtained without injury to living creatures, and injury to sentient beings is detrimental to (the attainment of) heavenly bliss ; let him therefore shun (the use of) meat."