Impermanence (Buddhism)
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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 in Pāli and anitya in Sanskrit, appears extensively in the Pali Canon as one of the essential doctrines of Buddhism. The doctrine asserts that all of conditioned existence, without exception, is "transient, evanescent, inconstant".
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.