concept

Anicca

Beliefs & concepts

Impermanence as a named Buddhist mark of existence. Not impermanence as the English quality alone, and not death as bare ending.

Also known as Anitya

Buddhist traditions

  • Anicca appears in Buddhist traditions.

    Watson’s Lotus Sūtra carries the Buddhist mark that conditioned things do not stay — anitya/anicca speech inside Mahāyāna assembly and parable teaching. Not the English quality impermanence alone, and not a Vedic permanence flatten.

    from Burton Watson (translation) · The Lotus Sutra, 1993 (this translation); Sanskrit/Chinese recensions much older

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • The Lotus Sutra · Burton Watson (translation)

    Burton Watson, The Lotus Sutra.