84000 Glossary of Terms

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བསྐལ་པ་འཇིག་པ། | Glossary of Terms

  • བསྐལ་པ་འཇིག་པ།

  • bskal pa ’jig pa
  • saṃvartakalpa
  • Term
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  • eon of destruction
  • བསྐལ་པ་འཇིག་པ།
  • bskal pa ’jig pa
  • saṃvartakalpa
Definition in this text:

The third period of destruction in the in the four-part cycle of creation and destruction of a world system or universe (here in The Question of Mañjuśrī it seems to be applied to an entire trichiliocosm). See also “eon.”