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(Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism) A doctrine of non-violence, concerned with the sacredness of all living things and an effort to avoid causing harm to them. quotations examples
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.
2006, Karen Armstrong, The Great Transformation, Atlantic Books, published 2007, page 79
This, in essence, is the Jain doctrine of ahimsa – a direct inversion of Vedic beliefs about the sustaining powers of animal sacrifice.
2016, Sunil Khilnani, Incarnations, Penguin, published 2017, page 9