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Translations of Impermanence | |
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English | Impermanence |
Sanskrit | अनित्य (IAST: anitya) |
Pali | अनिच्च (anicca) |
Burmese | အနိစ္စ (MLCTS: anicca) |
Chinese | 無常 (Pinyin: wúcháng) |
Japanese | 無常 (Rōmaji: mujō) |
Khmer | អនិច្ចំ (UNGEGN: ânĭchchâm) |
Korean | 무상 (RR: musang) |
Tibetan | མི་རྟག་པ་ (Wylie: mi rtag pa, THL: mi tak pa) |
Tagalog | anissa |
Thai | อนิจจัง (RTGS: anitchang) |
Vietnamese | vô thường |
Glossary of Buddhism |
Impermanence, called anicca (Pāli) or anitya (Sanskrit), appears extensively in the Pali Canon[1] as one of the essential doctrines of Buddhism.[1][2][3] The doctrine asserts that all of conditioned existence, without exception, is "transient, evanescent, inconstant".[1]
Anicca is one of the three marks of existence—the other two are dukkha (suffering or unsatisfactory) and anatta (without a lasting essence).
Anicca is in contrast to nirvana, the reality that is nicca, or knows no change, decay or death.[1]