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Ahimsa vs Noninjury - What's the difference?

ahimsa | noninjury | Synonyms |

Noninjury is a synonym of ahimsa.



As nouns the difference between ahimsa and noninjury

is that ahimsa is a doctrine of non-violence in Hinduism and Buddhism, concerned with the sacredness of all living things and an effort to avoid causing harm to them while noninjury is a practice or philosophy of not causing injury to others.

As an adjective noninjury is

not of or pertaining to injury.

ahimsa

English

(wikipedia ahimsa)

Alternative forms

* ahinsa

Noun

(-)
  • A doctrine of non-violence in Hinduism and Buddhism, concerned with the sacredness of all living things and an effort to avoid causing harm to them.
  • * 2006 , Karen Armstrong, The Great Transformation , Atlantic Books 2007, p. 79:
    • Already, at this very early date, the ritualists were moving towards the ideal of ahimsa ("harmlessness") that would become the indispensable virtue of the Indian Axial Age.

    noninjury

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • A practice or philosophy of not causing injury to others.
  • * 1981 , Vy?sa Patañjali, Yoga philosophy of Patañjali
    • It is not possible to practise noninjury unless selfishness is given up in respect of all external matters.
  • * 2009 , Katherine Wills Perlo, Kinship and Killing: The Animal in World Religions
    • Buddhist vegetarians ancient and modern argue from karmic interchangeability, from the supreme value of noninjury ...

    Synonyms

    * ahimsa, nonviolence

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not of or pertaining to injury.
  • * 1986 , John J Nance, Blind trust
    • In fact there had been two other noninjury accidents in 1976 and 1977...