One primary controversy centered on the principle of impermanence: if all phenomena are impermanent, the Sautrāntika challenged the Sarvāstivāda and the Theravāda, then dharmas must be changing continuously and can neither exist in the past and future nor endure for any period of time, however short, in the present.
To be impermanent is already to also be permanent there is no other impermanence.
And it is often edited, so (say) a young journalist with a breezy contemporary style may well be edited to a more traditional one by an older editor.Speech is different: instead of permanent, slow, considered and taught, it is impermanent, fast, spontaneous and learned naturally by children from their surroundings.
Reaching it tests endurance, with miles of impermanent sand tracks to negotiate.
Ice will vanish from Arctic summers and some mountaintops, permafrost will become impermanent, sea levels will keep rising.These changes will benefit some.
Yet oddly, by freezing the gerontocracy in place, he has made his new regime look impermanent.
Dr Mahathir's deputy, Abdullah Badawi, is the fourth to hold this impermanent appointment.
Mr Kerry's personality seems undefined partly because it is rootless and impermanent.
"It is temporary, impermanent.
Camps are small and impermanent.
The ancient and medieval states they founded, however, tended to be impermanent, and conquest of neighbouring sedentary populations of higher material culture often resulted in their eventual expulsion (a fate the Mongols experienced after most of their conquests) or in cultural and linguistic assimilation (as befell the Manchu in China).
