菩薩戒本疏 2.29

2.29

"If a disciple of the Buddha sees any sick person, they should always make offerings to them, no differently than to a Buddha. Among the eight fields of merit, the field of merit of tending to the sick is the foremost field of merit. If parents, masters, monks, or disciples are sick, having impaired sense faculties or afflicted by hundreds of kinds of illnesses, one must make offerings to them all to heal them. Yet if a bodhisattva, with a mind of hatred, does not care for them, or even, upon seeing the sick in monasteries, cities, wildernesses, mountain forests, or on roads, does not rescue and assist them, they commit a duṣkṛta offense."