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  1. In Hinduism, Buddhism, and especially
  2. Jainism, the doctrine of respect for all life
  3. (including the lowest forms and even the
  4. elements themselves) and consequently an
  5. extreme form of nonviolence. It arises in
  6. part from the concept of karma which holds
  7. that a person's actions (and thus any injury
  8. caused to any form of life) are carried
  9. forward from one life to the next,
  10. determining each stage of reincarnation.
  11.