壞劫

Readings

Pinyin: huàijié

Wade-Giles: huai-chieh

Hangul: 괴겁

Korean MC: goegeop

Korean MR: koegŏp

Katakana: エゴウ

Katakana: エコウ

Hepburn: egō

Hepburn: e kō

hoại kiếp

eon of annihilation

• Twenty smaller kalpas of time when the universe is destroyed. The periodic gradual destruction of a universe, one of its four kalpas, i.e. 成 vivarta, formation; 住 vivarta-siddha; abiding, or existence; 壞 saṃvarta, decay, or destruction; 滅 saṃvarta-siddha, final annihilation. Fire, water, and wind destroy everything except the fourth dhyāna. (Skt. saṃvarta, saṃvarta-kalpa, saṃvartanī; Tib. 'jig pa'i bskal pa) 〔瑜伽論 T 1579.30.285b27〕 Also 滅劫. [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): JEBD, Soothill, Hirakawa, YBh-Ind, Yokoi]

Dictionary References:

Bukkyō jiten (Ui), 86

Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.), 95d

Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha), 52b/58

Japanese-English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yokoi), 108

Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura), 107c

Fo Guang Dictionary, 6653

Ding Fubao, {Digital Version}

Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa), 0308

Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki), (v.1-6)1019a,1767b

Bukkyō daijiten (Oda), 701-3-4*1863-1

Sanskrit-Tibetan Index for the Yogâcārabhūmi-śāstra (Yokoyama and Hirosawa), {Digital Version}

Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms (Soothill), 237

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