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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]]. | '''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]].e | ||
==Definitions== | ==Definitions== | ||
In the [[Khenjuk]], [[Mipham Rinpoche]] says | 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 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]]) | *Non-violence is a compassionate attitude belonging to non-aggression. Its function is to avoid causing harm to others ([[Erik Pema Kunsang]]) | ||
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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.e
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)