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Definition of kalpa in English: kalpanoun ˈkalpə (in Hindu and Buddhist tradition) an immense period of time, reckoned as 4,320 million human years, and considered to be the length of a single cycle of the cosmos (or ‘day of Brahma’) from creation to dissolution. Example sentencesExamples - The current kalpa, called the Varaha kalpa, is the first day of Brahma's 51st year.
- It is because you and I are defiled that we have been wandering lost and confused through samsara for limitless kalpas; and that we cannot immediately cast off wrong thinking and see our original nature.
- So he knows that it is almost the same every time, but the pastime is a little different in each kalpa.
- Old and new lie next to one another, mixed and intermingled; the ancient is about to pass away, while the modern is geared for eternity, or at least for a kalpa which seems to us eternal.
- The first of these is that the Buddha was born within the current kalpa.
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