བསྐལ་པ་ཆེན་པོ། | Glossary of Terms
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བསྐལ་པ་ཆེ་བ།
- བསྐལ་པ་ཆེན་པོ།
- སྐལ་པ་ཆེན་པོ།
- bskal pa chen po
- bskal pa che ba
- skal pa chen po
- mahākalpa
- Term
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- great eon
- སྐལ་པ་ཆེན་པོ།
- skal pa chen po
- mahākalpa
The time during which a world is created and destroyed.
- great eon
- བསྐལ་པ་ཆེན་པོ།
- bskal pa chen po
- mahākalpa
Definitions regarding the duration of one “great eon” vary, but are normally given in billions of (human) years. One great eon is divided into eighty intermediate eons, or, according to a different system, into four. Both systems of division are reconciled by grouping the eighty intermediate eons into four units of twenty.
- great kalpa
- བསྐལ་པ་ཆེན་པོ།
- བསྐལ་པ་ཆེ་བ།
- bskal pa chen po
- bskal pa che ba
- mahākalpa
The name of a certain kind of kalpa. The number of years in this kalpa differs in the various sūtras that give it a number, although it is said to equal four asaṃkhyeya (“incalculable”) kalpas.