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good kalpa, golden age [IW]
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Paltrul Rinpoche: [[bskal pa]] [['di]] [[ma chags pa]]'i [[sngon rol du]] [[stong gsum thams cad]] [[chu'i rgya mtsho chen po gcig tu gyur]] [[te]] [[yod pa]] [[la]] [[me tog pad ma 'dab ma stong ldan]] [[stong]] [[skyes nas]] [['dug pa]] [[gtsang ris kyi lha]] [[rnams]] [[kyis]] [[rgyu mtshan ci yin zhes]] [[mngon shes]] [[kyis]] [[brtags pa]]s [[da res]] [[kyi]] [[bskal pa]] [['di la]] [[sangs rgyas]] [[stong]] [['byon pa]]r [[de'i don gyis]] [[yin par]] [[shes te]] [[da res]] [[kyi]] [[bskal pa]] [['di ni]] [[bskal pa bzang po]] [[yin no]] [[zhes]] [[bskal pa]]'i [[ming]] [[bzang po]] [[btags pa]] [[bzhin]] - Before our kalpa arose, this cosmos of a billion universes was an immense ocean on whose surface appeared a thousand-petaled lotuses. The gods of the Brahma-world, wondering how this could be, through clairvoyance understood it to signify that during this kalpa one thousand Buddhas would appear. "This will be a good kalpa", they said, and "Good" became its name [RY]
 
good kalpa [Auspicious/fortunate/ kalpa, bhadrakalpa, [our present world period blessed by the appearance of a buddha, a golden age [that has 1000 buddhas], the kalpa of light [[sgron me'i bskal pa]], happy times] [IW]
 
bhadrakalpa; 1) Auspicious Aeon. 2) Bhadrakalpa. 3) fortunate aeon. 4) the good aeon. 5) our present world period. 6) a Golden Age. Syn [[sgron me'i bskal pa]]. 7) happy times. 8) blessed period. [i.e. the period blessed by the appearance of a Buddha] [RY]
 
Good Aeon, Skt. bhadrakalpa). This present [[aeon]] in which one thousand buddhas will appear, lasting no less than 160 million years [RY]
 
good kalpa [IW]
 
 
 
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