大だい劫こう

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

• 仏ぶっ典てんでは、大だい劫こ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説とかれている。

  In Buddhist scriptures, a unit of time called a mahakalpa, an inconceivably long period, is expounded.