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Sacredness vs Ahimsa - What's the difference?

sacredness | ahimsa |

As nouns the difference between sacredness and ahimsa

is that sacredness is the property of being sacred 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.

sacredness

English

Noun

(es)
  • The property of being sacred.

    • 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.