Editing Impermanence (section)

===Buddhism===
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[[File:Buddhist Wheel of Life.jpg|alt=impermanence of life|thumb|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.{{fact|date=July 2022}}]]
'''Impermanence''', called '''anicca''' (Pāli) or '''anitya''' (Sanskrit), appears extensively in the Pali Canon<ref name="DavidsStede1921p355"/> as one of the essential doctrines of [[Buddhism]].<ref name="DavidsStede1921p355" /><ref name="gombrich47">{{cite book|author=Richard Gombrich|title=Theravada Buddhism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jZyJAgAAQBAJ|year=2006|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-90352-8|page=47}}, '''Quote:''' "All phenomenal existence [in Buddhism] is said to have three interlocking characteristics: impermanence, suffering and lack of soul or essence."</ref><ref name="buswelllopez42">{{cite book|author1=Robert E. Buswell Jr.|author2=Donald S. Lopez Jr.|title=The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DXN2AAAAQBAJ|year=2013|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-1-4008-4805-8|pages=42–43, 47, 581}}</ref> The doctrine asserts that all of conditioned existence, without exception, is "transient, evanescent, inconstant".<ref name="DavidsStede1921p355" /> All temporal things, whether material or mental, are compounded objects in a continuous change of condition, subject to decline and destruction.<ref name="DavidsStede1921p355">{{cite book|author1=Thomas William Rhys Davids |author2=William Stede |title=Pali-English Dictionary |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0Guw2CnxiucC |year=1921 |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass |isbn=978-81-208-1144-7 |pages=355, Article on '''Nicca''' }}</ref><ref name="buswelllopez47">{{cite book|author1=Robert E. Buswell Jr.|author2=Donald S. Lopez Jr.|title=The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DXN2AAAAQBAJ|year=2013|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-1-4008-4805-8|pages=47–48, Article on ''Anitya''}}</ref> All physical and mental events are not metaphysically real. They are not constant or permanent; they come into being and dissolve.<ref name="Billington2002p56">{{cite book|author=Ray Billington|title=Understanding Eastern Philosophy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dACFAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA56|year=2002|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-79348-8|pages=56–59}}</ref>