U budizmu, '''tri karakteristike bića''' su [[nepostojanost]] (''aniccā''), nezadovoljstvo[[nesopstvo]] ili(''anattā'') i [[patnja]] (''duḥkha'').<ref>{{cite book|author=Steven Collins|title=Nirvana and Other Buddhist Felicities |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z2go_y5KYyoC |year=1998|publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-57054-1 |pages=140 }}</ref> i [[nesopstvo]] (''anattā'').<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><ref>{{cite book|author=Carl Olson|title=The Different Paths of Buddhism: A Narrative-Historical Introduction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QRp-AixBLKUC |year=2005|publisher=Rutgers University Press |isbn=978-0-8135-3778-8 |pages=63–64 }}</ref> Prema nešto drukčijem tumačenju, treća odlika bića je [[nirvana]].{{sfn|HAHN, Thic Nhat. The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching. New York: Broadway books.|1999|p=22}}
[[Patnja (budizam)|Patnja]] nastaje tako što ljudi podležu zabludi, verujući da su [[Tvorevina (budizam)|tvorevine]] postojane, odnosno da imaju suštinu.▼
Prema nešto drukčijem tumačenju, treća odlika bića je [[nirvana]].{{sfn|HAHN, Thic Nhat. The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching. New York: Broadway books.|1999|p=22}}
▲Patnja nastaje tako što ljudi podležu zabludi, verujući da su [[Tvorevina (budizam)|tvorevine]] postojane, odnosno da imaju suštinu.
