Difference between revisions of "Kalpa"

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Three Jewels (Tib. dkon mchog gsum, Skt. triratna): the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha. (MR)

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-[[Kalpa]] ([[bskal pa]]): A great kalpa, which corresponds to a cycle of formation and destruction of a universe, is divided into eighty intermediate kalpas. An intermediate kalpa is composed of one small kalpa during which the span of life, etc., increases and one small [[kalpa]] during which it decreases. [MR]
+[[Three Jewels]] (Tib. [[dkon mchog gsum]], Skt. triratna): the [[Buddha]], the [[Dharma]] and the [[Sangha]]. ([[MR]])
+[[Category: Key Terms]]
-[[kab tshe pa]] - period of famine /privation during the last kalpa [IW]
-[[kab tshe pa]] - n. of a period of hunger and privation during the last kalpa [RY]
-[[kal pa]] - SK kalpa [IW]
-[[kal pa]] - kalpa, SA [[bskal pa]] [JV]
-[[bskal chung]] - small kalpa/ [[aeon]] [IW]
-[[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]
-[[bskal chen]] - great [[aeon]]/[[kalpa]] [acc to Abhidharma-kosha = 80 {bskal chung} acc to abhidharma-samuccaya = four {[[bskal chung]]} see {[[bskal pa chen po]]} eighty intermediate [[aeon]]s {[[bar bskal]]} and is divided into; {[[chags pa'i bskal pa]] [[nyi shu]]} = twenty [[aeon]]s of the formation of the universe {[[gnas pa'i bskal pa]] [[nyi shu]]} = twenty [[aeon]]s of its persistence {[['jigs pa]]'i [[bskal pa]] [[nyi shu]]} = twenty [[aeon]]s of its dissolution, {[[stong pa'i bskal pa]] [[nyi shu]]} = twenty [[aeon]]s of vacuity) [IW]
-[[bskal chen]] - great aeon/ kalpa [IW]
-[[bskal chen]] - mahakalpa [IW]
-[[bskal mchog]] - supreme kalpa [IW]
-[[bskal pa]] - 1) universal; 2) gifted, fortunate; 3) long, removed, distant, protracted or hard to understand [anything]; 4) [[kalpa]] (age, cosmic period, very long measure of time syn: [[spyad zin pa]] [[dang]], [[yongs gyur]], [[lo]]'i [[phung po]]) [IW]
-[[bskal pa]] - 1) aeon, kalpa, age, period, cosmic period; time. 2) universally. See also / sometimes misspelling of {[[skal pa]]} [RY]
-[[bskal pa]] - kalpa, age, eon, fabulous period of time, various ages of the world, more than four billion years [JV]
-[[bskal pa]] - kalpa {[[de yang]] [[srid pa chags gnas 'jig stong bzhi'i yun]] [[la]] [[bskal pa]] [[zhes grags]] [[pa]]} the time it takes for the universe to form, to stay in existence, to be destroyed and to remain in a state of emptiness is called a [[kalpa]] [RY]
-[[Category: Key Terms]] [[Category: Mahayana]][[Category: Sutra]] [[Category: Vajrayana]] [[Category: Teachings]]

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