劫火
also: こうか
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Meanings
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world-destroying conflagration; kalpa-ending fire
Buddhist term for the great fire that destroys the world at the end of a kalpa. Used metaphorically for a massive, all-consuming fire or catastrophe.
Buddhist scriptures teach that the kalpa-ending fire will consume the world.
The war destroyed the city like a world-destroying conflagration.