Nonviolence: Difference between revisions

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.

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)

Revision as of 03:44, 25 November 2017 (view source) Kent (talk \| contribs) No edit summary ← Older edit		Latest revision as of 03:44, 25 November 2017 (view source) Kent (talk \| contribs) mNo edit summary
Line 1:		Line 1:
	'''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]].		'''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==