also: たいごう
noun
mahakalpa; great eon
Buddhist term for an immense cosmic period, often described as the time it takes for a celestial being to wear away a huge rock with a delicate cloth once every hundred years. Used in sutras and doctrinal texts.
See also: 劫
仏典では、大劫という途方もなく長い時間の単位が説かれている。
In Buddhist scriptures, a unit of time called a mahakalpa, an inconceivably long period, is expounded.
劫 is a general kalpa or eon; 大劫 specifically refers to a great kalpa, a much larger unit in Buddhist cosmology.
From Middle Chinese 大劫 (dɑiᴴ kɨɐp̚), itself a translation of Sanskrit mahākalpa. The term entered Japanese through Buddhist texts.