kalpas

But Indian imagination was such that the Great Years themselves were orga - nized into groups of a thousand, called kalpas, a con - cept which was introduced at the time of the Emperor

CYCLES GEORGE BOAS 1968

At the end of each of the great world periods called kalpas the Lord retracts the whole world, i.e. the whole material world is dissolved and merged into non-distinct Mâyâ, while the individual souls, free for the time from actual connexion with upâdhis, lie in deep slumber as it were.

The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 George Thibaut 1881

These periods are called kalpas, and each one covers a duration of thousands of millions of years.

The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863

What can be done is being done, join in the ongoing revolution that has been going on for uncountable kalpas, there is nothing at all to stop you since you already are the counciousness that you seek, just weed out the ego and delusion and that is all there is to it.

Ed and Deb Shapiro: What The Buddha Would Say To Sarah Palin 2009

Any two-bit religious scholar knows that Buddhists and Hindus count time in kalpas, or segments of millions of years, and that they firmly believe the earth was created billions of years ago.

Matt Browner Hamlin: Christopher Hitchens Is Absurd 2009

In India, according to their way of thinking, there are kalpas that last I don't know how many thousands of years.

Jorge Wilmot: The Interval Between Before And After 2007

In India, according to their way of thinking, there are kalpas that last I don't know how many thousands of years.

Jorge Wilmot: The Interval Between Before And After 2007

I had no longer that feeling of unutterable loneliness; but felt, rather, that I was less alone, than I had been for kalpas of years.

The House on the Borderland 2007

And never, ever, ever, in a thousand kalpas or even through a billion obscure Buddhist hells, the NEVADA TRUCKDRIVER as an old all american moral archtype.

Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: The Shocking Shocking SHOCKING Truth!! 2006

Asankhyeya-kalpas,9 manifested his activity, and did not spare his own life.

A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms 2003