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| − | A '''great kalpa''' (Skt. ''[[mahākalpa]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[བསྐལ་ཆེན]]་}}, Wyl. ''[[bskal chen]]'') is the period of time during which the universe passes through the four periods (or '''medium kalpas''') of | + | A '''[[great kalpa]]''' (Skt. ''[[mahākalpa]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[བསྐལ་ཆེན]]་}}, Wyl. ''[[bskal chen]]'') is the period of time during which the universe passes through the four periods (or '''medium kalpas''') of |
#formation (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[ཆགས་པའི་བསྐལ་པ་]]}}, Wyl. ''[[chags pa'i bskal pa]]''), | #formation (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[ཆགས་པའི་བསྐལ་པ་]]}}, Wyl. ''[[chags pa'i bskal pa]]''), | ||
#duration (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[གནས་པའི་བསྐལ་པ་]]}}, Wyl. ''[[gnas pa'i bskal pa]]''), | #duration (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[གནས་པའི་བསྐལ་པ་]]}}, Wyl. ''[[gnas pa'i bskal pa]]''), | ||
Revision as of 11:54, 6 June 2014
A great kalpa (Skt. mahākalpa; Tib. བསྐལ་ཆེན་, Wyl. bskal chen) is the period of time during which the universe passes through the four periods (or medium kalpas) of
- formation (Tib. ཆགས་པའི་བསྐལ་པ་, Wyl. chags pa'i bskal pa),
- duration (Tib. གནས་པའི་བསྐལ་པ་, Wyl. gnas pa'i bskal pa),
- destruction (Tib. འཇིག་པའི་བསྐལ་པ་, Wyl. 'jig pa'i bskal pa) and
- voidness (Tib. སྟོང་པའི་བསྐལ་པ་, Wyl. stong pa'i bskal pa).
