Nonviolence

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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 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)
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