[
UK
/ˈæhɪmsɐ/
]
NOUN
- a Buddhist and Hindu and especially Jainist doctrine holding that all forms of life are sacred and urging the avoidance of violence
How To Use ahimsa In A Sentence
- The name of Buddha upholds non-violence - ahimsa and promotes peace.
- Gandhi's pervasive challenge to every raj is predicated on the moral values of: swadeshi, aparigraha (non-possession), sarvodaya, ahimsa, bread labour, trusteeship, non-exploitation, and equality.
- But the overlying principle that defines the Hindu answer to this query is ahimsa - refraining from injuring, physically, mentally or emotionally, anyone or any living creature.
- And then he remembered something that Old Father had once said about the nature of ahimsa. THE BROKEN GOD
- This is the strictest expression of Hinduism's law of ahimsa.
- He is just one of the hundreds of spokesmen and women spreading the Hindu ideal of ahimsa, noninjury to others, whether by thought, word or deed.
- The absolute emphasis on compassion and ahimsa in Buddhism and Jainism are the quintessence of peace.
- He explained to me that ahimsa (non-violence) is part of Hinduism.
- In my opinion, the word ahimsa means nonaggression and not nonviolence.
- But he reasoned that ahimsa, as Old Father taught the doctrine, required that he never harm anyone intentionally. THE BROKEN GOD
