HISTORY
ORIGINS OF CIVILIZATION PREHISTORY300 BC
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Question
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The Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist doctrine of nonviolence.
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An ancient Aryan text.
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The name of the Harappans’ most famous site.
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The Buddhist term for Enlightenment.
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Detailed explanation-1: -ahimsa, (Sanskrit: “noninjury”) in the Indian religions of Jainism, Hinduism, and Buddhism, the ethical principle of not causing harm to other living things.
Detailed explanation-2: -For Buddhists, nonviolence is a way of life, born of the fusion of spiritual insight and practical action. Meditation is at the core of Buddhism and from it comes experiential understandings of the nature of suffering and responses to help alleviate suffering and its causes.
Detailed explanation-3: -In Hinduism, adherents to the proscription against violence toward living things can escape from the cycle of rebirth and the doctrine also forms a basis for vegetarianism. In Buddhism, non-violence is manifest in the Buddha’s emphasis on compassion and is also part of the faith’s moral codes.
Detailed explanation-4: -To avoid bad karma, Jains must practice ahimsa, a strict code of nonviolence. Jains believe plants, animals, and even some nonliving things (like air and water) have souls, just as humans do. The principle of nonviolence includes doing no harm to humans, plants, animals, and nature.
Detailed explanation-5: -Ahimsā (Ahimsā, alternatively spelled ‘ahinsā’, Sanskrit: IAST: ahinsā, Pāli: avihinsā) in Jainism is a fundamental principle forming the cornerstone of its ethics and doctrine. The term ahinsa means nonviolence, non-injury and absence of desire to harm any life forms.