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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 '''{{Wiki|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]]''), |
| − | #destruction (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[འཇིག་པའི་བསྐལ་པ་]]}}, Wyl. '' [['jig pa'i bskal pa]]'') and | + | #destruction (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[འཇིག་པའི་བསྐལ་པ་]]}}, [[Wyl.]] '' [['jig pa'i bskal pa]]'') and |
| − | #voidness (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[སྟོང་པའི་བསྐལ་པ་]]}}, Wyl. ''[[stong pa'i bskal pa]]''). | + | #[[voidness]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[སྟོང་པའི་བསྐལ་པ་]]}}, [[Wyl.]] ''[[stong pa'i bskal pa]]''). |
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| + | [[bskal chen]] - [[mahakalpa]] [according to the [[Abhidharmakosha]] [[tradition]] 80 [[small kalpas]], acc to [[abhidharma-samuccaya]] = four {[[bskal chung]]} in [[human]] years [[dung phyur drug dang bye ba bdun sa ya gcig ‘bum dgu khri gnyis]] = 671,920,000, or another [[tradition]] says ‘[[khrug phrag bdun]] [IW] | ||
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Revision as of 14:47, 6 September 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).
bskal chen - mahakalpa [according to the Abhidharmakosha tradition 80 small kalpas, acc to abhidharma-samuccaya = four {bskal chung} in human years dung phyur drug dang bye ba bdun sa ya gcig ‘bum dgu khri gnyis = 671,920,000, or another tradition says ‘khrug phrag bdun [IW]
