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'''Nonviolence''' (Skt. ''avihiṃsā''; Tib. [[རྣམ་པར་མི་འཚེ་བ་]], Wyl. ''rnam par mi ‘tshe ba'') — one of the [[fifty-one mental states]] defined in [[Abhidharma]] literature. According to the ''[[Compendium of Abhidharma]]'', it belongs to the subgroup of the [[ | '''Nonviolence''' (Skt. ''avihiṃsā''; Tib. [[རྣམ་པར་མི་འཚེ་བ་]], ''nampar mitsewa'', [[Wyl.]] ''rnam par mi ‘tshe ba'') — one of the [[fifty-one mental states]] defined in [[Abhidharma]] literature. According to the ''[[Compendium of Abhidharma]]'', it belongs to the subgroup of the [[eleven virtuous states]]. | ||
==Definitions== | ==Definitions== | ||
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==Alternative Translations== | ==Alternative Translations== | ||
* | *non-hostility (David Karma Choepel) | ||
*nonharmfulness | |||
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[[Category:Fifty-one mental states]] | [[Category:Fifty-one mental states]] | ||
[[Category:Eleven virtuous states]] | [[Category:Eleven virtuous states]] | ||
Latest revision as of 03:44, 25 November 2017
Nonviolence (Skt. avihiṃsā; Tib. རྣམ་པར་མི་འཚེ་བ་, nampar mitsewa, Wyl. rnam par mi ‘tshe ba) — one of the fifty-one mental states defined in Abhidharma literature. According to the Compendium of Abhidharma, it belongs to the subgroup of the eleven virtuous states.
Definitions
In the Khenjuk, Mipham Rinpoche says:
- Tib. རྣམ་པར་མི་འཚེ་བ་ནི་ཞེ་སྡང་མེད་པའི་ཆར་གཏོགས་པ་སྙིང་རྗེ་བའི་སེམས་ཏེ། གཞན་ལ་ཐོ་མི་བརྩམ་པའི་ལས་ཅན་ནོ།
- Non-violence is a compassionate mind, included in nonaggression. Its function is to avoid causing harm to others (Rigpa Translations)
- Non-violence is a compassionate attitude belonging to non-aggression. Its function is to avoid causing harm to others (Erik Pema Kunsang)
Alternative Translations
- non-hostility (David Karma Choepel)
- nonharmfulness