also: くうごう
noun
kalpa of nothingness; final aeon of emptiness
Buddhist cosmological term: the fourth and final kalpa in the cycle of creation and destruction, when the universe is completely void. Part of the four kalpas (四劫).
See also: 四劫
空劫は、仏教の宇宙論で、世界が完全に空無となる時期を指す。
In Buddhist cosmology, the kalpa of nothingness refers to the period when the world becomes completely void.
The four kalpas as a set: 成劫 (formation), 住劫 (continuation), 壊劫 (destruction), and 空劫 (nothingness). 空劫 is the final stage.
From 空 (emptiness, void) + 劫 (kalpa, aeon). A Buddhist technical term describing the final phase of the cosmic cycle.