Impermanence (Buddhism)

Translations of
Impermanence
EnglishImpermanence
Sanskritअनित्य
(IAST: anitya)
Paliअनिच्च
(anicca)
Burmeseအနိစ္စ
(MLCTS: anicca)
Chinese無常
(Pinyin: wúcháng)
Japanese無常
(Rōmaji: mujō)
Khmerអនិច្ចំ
(UNGEGN: ânĭchchâm)
Korean무상
(RR: musang)
Tibetanམི་རྟག་པ་
(Wylie: mi rtag pa, THL: mi tak pa)
Tagaloganissa
Thaiอนิจจัง
(RTGS: anitchang)
Vietnamesevô thường
Glossary of Buddhism
impermanence of life
According to Buddhism, living beings go through many births. Buddhism does not teach the existence of a permanent, immutable soul. The birth of one form from another is part of a process of continuous change.[citation needed]

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]

  1. ^ a b c d Thomas William Rhys Davids; William Stede (1921). Pali-English Dictionary. Motilal Banarsidass. pp. 355, Article on Nicca. ISBN 978-81-208-1144-7.
  2. ^ Richard Gombrich (2006). Theravada Buddhism. Routledge. p. 47. ISBN 978-1-134-90352-8., Quote: "All phenomenal existence [in Buddhism] is said to have three interlocking characteristics: impermanence, suffering and lack of soul or essence."
  3. ^ Robert E. Buswell Jr.; Donald S. Lopez Jr. (2013). The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism. Princeton University Press. pp. 42–43, 47, 581. ISBN 978-1-4008-4805-8.

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