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Buddhism doctrine of nonviolence
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ahimsa
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WordNet
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n. a Buddhist and Hindu and especially Jainist doctrine holding that all forms of life are sacred and urging the avoidance of violence
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Ahimsa (; IAST : , Pāli : ) is a term meaning 'not to injure' and 'compassion'. The word is derived from the Sanskrit root hiṃs – to strike; hiṃsā is injury or harm, a-hiṃsā is the opposite of this, i.e. cause no injury, do no harm. Ahimsa is also referred ...
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n. A doctrine of non-violence in Hinduism and Buddhism, concerned with the sacredness of all living things and an effort to avoid causing harm to them.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1875, from Sanskrit ahimsa , from a "without" + himsa "injury."
Usage examples of ahimsa.
He was so ashamed of breaking ahimsa that his body fell slack and the other boys managed to pin him to the floor.
Danlo had learned to restrain the worst of his hatred, and he began to understand the terrible patience and strength that ahimsa required of a man.
Without care or consideration of ahimsa, Danlo reached up to the lowest branch of the tree above the bench, and he plucked off a single leaf.
One single time he had broken ahimsa, harmed Pedar in his thoughts, and now the boy was dead.
You used ahimsa as a weapon to make the poet let you recite the poem, and now the poet is dead.
Danlo his love of ahimsa, his marvellous will, his deep, vivid eyes was urging the warrior-poet into life.
It is, therefore, preposterous to suggest that the two cannot live together amicably because the Hindus believe in Ahimsa and the Mahomedans do not.
We seem to understand the words Ahimsa, politics and religion differently.
I accept the interpretation of Ahimsa, namely, that it is not merely a negative State of harmlessness, but it is a positive state of love, of doing good even to the evil-doer.
On the contrary love, the active state of Ahimsa, requires you to resist the wrong-doer by dissociating yourself from him even though it may offend him or injure him physically.
He might have made a spear out of whalebone and wood, but he remembered that his vow of ahimsa forbade him to harm any animal, even a desperate tiger, even in defence of his own blessed life.
Did the Entity truly believe that he would forsake his vow of ahimsa merely upon the threat of death?
In the wildness of his youth, Danlo had hunted and slain a thousand such animals would it be so great a sin if he broke ahimsa this one time and sacrificed the lamb?
He remembered his vow of ahimsa then, and he realized that even if he had hated the tiger, he could never have harmed such a marvellous beast.
But She gave him not the slightest inkling of the difficulties he might face, hinting only that, as with the test of his faithfulness to ahimsa, part of the test would be his ability to discover the true nature of the test and why he was being tested.