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The '''four intermediary [[kalpa]]s''' (Tib. བར་བསྐལ་ཉི་ཤུ་, Wyl. ''bar bskal nyi shu'') are the four periods of a [[great kalpa]]: | The '''four intermediary [[kalpa]]s''' (Tib. བར་བསྐལ་ཉི་ཤུ་, ''bar kal nyishu'', [[Wyl.]] ''bar bskal nyi shu'') are the four periods of a [[great kalpa]]: | ||
#formation (Tib. ཆགས་པའི་བསྐལ་པ་, Wyl. ''chags pa'i bskal pa''), | #formation (Tib. ཆགས་པའི་བསྐལ་པ་, Wyl. ''chags pa'i bskal pa''), | ||
#duration (Tib. གནས་པའི་བསྐལ་པ་, Wyl. ''gnas pa'i bskal pa''), | #duration (Tib. གནས་པའི་བསྐལ་པ་, Wyl. ''gnas pa'i bskal pa''), | ||
Revision as of 16:48, 29 March 2018
The four intermediary kalpas (Tib. བར་བསྐལ་ཉི་ཤུ་, bar kal nyishu, Wyl. bar bskal nyi shu) are the four periods of a great kalpa:
- 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).
Further Reading
- Kangyur Rinpoche, Treasury of Precious Qualities (Boston & London: Shambhala, 2001), 'Appendix I'.
- Patrul Rinpoche, The Words of My Perfect Teacher (Boston: Shambhala, Revised edition, 1998), pages 25-26.