塵じん点でん劫ごう

noun

incomprehensibly long time; infinity

Buddhist term for an unimaginably vast period of time, often used in parables to illustrate the scale of kalpas. Not used in everyday conversation.

• 仏ぶっ教きょうの経きょう典てんには、塵じん点でん劫ごうという途と方ほうもなく長ながい時じ間かんの単たん位いが登とう場じょうする。

  In Buddhist scriptures, a unit of time called jindengō, an incomprehensibly long period, appears.