檢視 Kalpa 的原始碼

'''Kalpa''' (Skt.; Tib. བསྐལ་པ་, [[Wyl.]]'' bskal pa'') — an aeon, a vast period of time related to the different phases of a great universe (or [[trichiliocosm]]), according to [[Abhidharma]] literature. 

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

Each of these four periods is made up of twenty '''[[intermediate kalpa]]s''', which are also sometimes subdivided into periods of increase and decrease (of the [[merit]] and life-span of beings living during that period).

==Further Reading==
*[[Kangyur Rinpoche]], ''Treasury of Precious Qualities'' (Boston & London: Shambhala, 2001), 'Appendix I'. 
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*[[Patrul Rinpoche]], ''[[The Words of My Perfect Teacher]]'' (Boston: Shambhala, Revised edition, 1998), pages 25-26.

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