Impermanence (Buddhism)

Translations of Impermanence
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)
Tagalog	anissa
Tibetan	མི་རྟག་པ་ (Wylie: mi rtag pa, THL: mi tak pa)
Thai	อนิจจัง (RTGS: anitchang)
Vietnamese	vô thường
Glossary of Buddhism

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.

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 Duḥkha (suffering or dissatisfaction) and Anattā (the lack of a lasting essence).

Anicca is in contrast to Nibbana, the reality that is nicca, or knows no change, decay or death.