Ahiṃsā
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Ahiṃsā (Skt., ‘not-harming’). Avoiding injury to any sentient creature through act or thought, a principle of basic importance for Indian religions, but especially for Jains and Buddhists, whose emphasis on ahiṃsā reinforced their rejection of sacrifice (since sacrifice necessarily involves violence against animals). It is the first of the five precepts of Buddhist life (
śīla). For Jains, it is the first of the
Five Great Vows. Good conduct (
car̄ita) is ahiṃsā put into practice. It was a Jain, Śrīmad
Rājacandra, who greatly influenced
Gāndhī, through whose teaching, practice, and example nonviolence became a powerful instrument of dissent and political action in the 20th cent.
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