section_path: Worldview/Three marks of existence
section_name: Three marks of existence
paragraph_text: Three marks of existence
  
  Most schools of Buddhism teach three marks of existence:
  
  Buddhism teaches that the idea that anything is permanent or that there is self in any being is ignorance or misperception (avijjā), and that this is the primary source of clinging and dukkha.
  
  Some schools describe four characteristics or "four seals of the Dharma", adding to the above: