四分律行事鈔資持記 3.160

3.160

Regarding being alive or deceased: In the *Mahāsāṃghika-vinaya*, it must be within one hundred and twenty li. The *Mahīśāsaka-vinaya* takes knowing as the criterion, without fixing the proximity or distance. The *Sarvāstivāda Vinaya Vibhāṣā* requires being in the same country. However, national borders being vast and distant, if measured merely by prefectures and commanderies, mutual communication cannot occur, so in principle a separate formal request must be made.