Motif
abstention from causing harm to living beings
abstention_from_causing_harm_to_living_beings
A motif of the Sacred Law and Social Order family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
buddhist
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Vinaya Texts, Part II: The Mahavagga V-X, The Kullavagga I-III (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 17) V, I, 7. RULES FOR FOOT-CLOTIIING, SEATS, ETC. T, / V, I, 25. RULES FOR FOOT-CLOTHING, SEATS, ETC. I I / V, 7, I. RULES FOR FOOT-CLOTHING, SEATS, ETC.; lines 1237-1410 confidence: high
The modest Bhikkhus object that he induced a man to deprive a living thing of life, recall that taking life is censured and abstinence praised, and report to the Blessed One.
The passage condemns inducing another to kill, recalls praise of abstinence from taking life, and states that no one shall cause a living thing to be deprived of life.
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