Hamsa vs Ahimsa - What's the difference?
hamsa | ahimsa |
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:
As nouns the difference between hamsa and ahimsa
is that hamsa is the Hand of Fatima while 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.ahimsa
English
(wikipedia ahimsa)Alternative forms
* ahinsaNoun
(-)- 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.