法苑珠林 64.7

64.7

As the Nirvāṇa Sūtra states: There are sixteen kinds of evil discipline. What are the sixteen? First, raising sheep and lambs for profit, selling them once fattened. Second, buying them for profit to butcher and slaughter. Third, raising swine and pigs for profit, selling them once fattened. Fourth, buying them for profit to butcher and slaughter. Fifth, raising cattle and calves for profit, selling them once fattened. Sixth, buying them for profit to butcher and slaughter. Seventh, keeping chickens to make them fat for profit, selling them once fattened. Eighth, buying them for profit to butcher and slaughter. Ninth, angling for fish. Tenth, being a hunter. Eleventh, robbery and pillage. Twelfth, being an executioner. Thirteenth, netting flying birds. Fourteenth, double-tongued speech. Fifteenth, being a jailer. Sixteenth, charming serpents. Being able to forever cut off these sixteen evil karmas for the sake of sentient beings is called cultivating the precepts.