法苑珠林 88.38

88.38

又優婆塞五戒相經云。佛告諸比丘。犯殺有三種奪人命。一自作。二教人。三遣使。自作者。自身作奪他命。教人者。教語他人言。捉是人繫縛奪命。遣使者。語他人言。汝識某甲不。汝捉是人繫縛奪命。是使隨語奪彼命時。優婆塞犯不可悔罪。復有三種。一用內色。二用非內色。三用內非內色。第一用內色殺者。謂用手打。若用足及餘身分令彼死。是犯不可悔罪。若不即死後因是死亦犯不可悔。若後不死。是得中罪可悔。第二用不內色殺者。若人以木石刀矟弓箭等令彼死者。同前得罪。第三用內非內色殺者。以手捉木石等打令死者。得罪同前。復有不以此三殺。但合諸毒藥著眼耳鼻身上食中被褥等。中令彼死者。亦同前罪。

Furthermore, the Sūtra on the Characteristics of the Five Precepts for Upāsakas states: The Buddha told the monks: The offense of killing consists of three ways of depriving a person of life: first, doing it oneself; second, instructing others; third, sending an emissary. Doing it oneself means taking another's life with one's own body. Instructing others means giving instructions and telling another person: 'Seize this person, bind him, and take his life.' Sending an emissary means telling another person: 'Do you know so-and-so? Seize that person, bind him, and take his life.' When that emissary follows the instruction and takes the other's life, the upāsaka commits an unpardonable offense. There are further three kinds: first, using internal form; second, using non-internal form; third, using both internal and non-internal form. First, killing by using internal form means striking with one's hand, using one's foot, or using other parts of the body to cause the other to die; this is committing an unpardonable offense. If the person does not die immediately but subsequently dies because of it, it is also an unpardonable offense. If the person does not die afterward, this is incurring a medium, pardonable offense. Second, killing by using non-internal form: if a person uses wood, stone, swords, halberds, bows, arrows, and the like to cause the other to die, it incurs the same offense as above. Third, killing by using internal and non-internal form: grasping wood, stones, or the like with the hand to strike and cause death incurs the same offense as above. Furthermore, there is killing not by these three: simply compounding various poisons and applying them to the eyes, ears, nose, or body, or putting them into food, bedding, and the like, thereby causing the other to die, also incurs the same offense as above.