不ふ殺せっ生しょう戒かい

noun

precept against killing; precept of non-harming

Buddhist precept that forbids taking the life of any sentient being; one of the fundamental ethical rules for laypeople and monastics.

• 不ふ殺せっ生しょう戒かいは仏ぶっ教きょうの基き本ほん的てきな戒かい律りつの一ひとつです。

  The precept against killing is one of the fundamental Buddhist precepts.

• 彼かれは不ふ殺せっ生しょう戒かいを守まもるために菜さい食しょく主しゅ義ぎを選えらんだ。

  He chose vegetarianism in order to observe the precept against killing.