Articles by alphabetic order
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
 Ā Ḍ Ḥ Ī Ḷ Ṃ Ṇ Ñ Ṅ Ṛ Ṣ Ś Ṭ Ū Ö Ō
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0


བསྐལ་ཆེན་

From Tibetan Buddhist Encyclopedia
Revision as of 11:52, 6 June 2014 by Adminos (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{DisplayImages|{{Random number}}}} A '''great kalpa''' (Skt. ''mahākalpa''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|བསྐལ་ཆེན་}}, Wyl. ''bskal chen'') is the period o...")
(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)
Jump to navigation Jump to search
Afffffbrain.jpg

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

  1. formation (Tib. ཆགས་པའི་བསྐལ་པ་, Wyl. chags pa'i bskal pa),
  2. duration (Tib. གནས་པའི་བསྐལ་པ་, Wyl. gnas pa'i bskal pa),
  3. destruction (Tib. འཇིག་པའི་བསྐལ་པ་, Wyl. 'jig pa'i bskal pa) and
  4. voidness (Tib. སྟོང་པའི་བསྐལ་པ་, Wyl. stong pa'i bskal pa).

See Also

Retrieved from "http://www.tibetanbuddhistencyclopedia.com/en/index.php?title=བསྐལ་ཆེན་&oldid=169290"