HIMSA


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In contrast to the Terapanthi position, which is focused solely on reducing personal himsa, the mission of panjrapole managers is to mitigate others' himsa by doing their best to protect and improve the lives of animals who may otherwise be abandoned or sold for slaughter.
Engaged Jain traditions and social nonviolence: ethnographic case studies of lay animal activists and service-oriented nuns (1)
As fighters on duty, they must not resort to violence, even in self-defense, because when one is engaged in a fight against corruption or oppression, one must not resort to himsa, i.e., harm, as ahimsa is the basis, means and method of that Truth Force.
The role of virtue in developing trustworthiness in public officials
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Anyone who dispatches this lunatic will earn the gratitude of the community and be regarded as a benevolent man." Gandhi framed his nonviolent belief within the concept of himsa, that which destroys life, and ahimsa, that which unites it.
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Himsa or violence against another is himsa against oneself, because the self and all sentient beings are one.
Gandhian Principles in Social Work Practice: Ethics Revisited
The habit of proper mastication of food inculcated by the use of uncooked greens therefore, if it does nothing else, will at least enable one to do with less quantity of food and thus not only make for economy in consumption but also automatically reduce the dietetic himsa [violence] that one commits to sustain life.
Asceticism and eroticism in Gandhi, Thoreau and Nietzsche: an essay in geo-philosophy
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The most common Indian term for violence was himsa; the absence of violence in one's life was rendered in Indian religious contexts as ahimsa.
Is violence justified in Theravada Buddhism?
Kiyotaka Yoshimizu turns our attention to the less-studied Prabhakara school of Mimamsa, examining the concept of obligation (niyoga) in the commentaries of Prabhakara and Salikanatha; he shows how niyoga is used to explain sacrificial himsa while ruling out other kinds of violence, including the ritual malevolence encoded in certain sacrifices, e.g., the syena yaga.
Orbis Indicus: Essays in Honor of Gerhard Oberhammer
Yogasutra 2.30 and 32: "actions" such as himsa, "suppressions" such as sauca.
Abhinavagupta's aesthetics as a speculative paradigm
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