[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [諸經要集](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123) › 17.56 # 諸經要集 17.56 諸經要集 17.56 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [17.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.17.56) 第十明食肉之人死則還生惡羅剎等中。是故行者不應食肉。如彼經說。食肉眾生。依於過去食肉熏故。多生羅剎師子虎狼犲犳猫狸鵄梟鵰鷲鷹鷂等中。有命之類各自護身。不令得便受飢餓苦。常生惡心念食他肉。命終復墮惡道受生。人身難得。何況當有得涅槃道。當知食肉有如是等無量諸過。是故行者不食。即是無量功德之聚也。 > Tenth, explaining that when those who eat meat die, they are reborn back among evil rākṣasas and the like. Therefore, practitioners should not eat meat. As that sūtra says: 'Sentient beings who eat meat, perfumed by their past meat-eating, are mostly born among rākṣasas, lions, tigers, wolves, jackals, leopards, cats, owls, vultures, and hawks. Other living creatures guard themselves against them, giving them no opportunity, so that they suffer the torment of hunger. Constantly generating evil thoughts of eating the flesh of others, at the end of their lives they fall again into the evil destinies to take rebirth. A human body is difficult to obtain, how much less could they attain the path to nirvāṇa! One should know that eating meat has immeasurable faults such as these. Therefore, when a practitioner does not eat it, that is a heap of immeasurable merit.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 17.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.17.55) - [Next: 17.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.17.57) - [Up: 17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.17) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123~en-mt.17.56) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [法苑珠林](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.93.55) — 道世, Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.17.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.17.56) · Pramāṇa