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Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: Wisdom Library: Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra

Kalpoddāha (कल्पोद्दाह) or Mahākalpoddāha refers to the “great fire at the end of the kalpa”, according to Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra (chapter 41).—Accordingly, “[The eighteen āveṇika-dharmas (‘special attributes’)]— [...] (7). The Buddha has no loss of zeal. [...] In the horse-jewel (aśvaratna), even if it has arrived at its destination, the desire to go forward never ceases and persists until death. It is the same for the Buddha-Jewel. When the great fire at the end of the kalpa (mahā-kalpoddāha) has burned and consumed the trisāhasramahāsāhasralokadhātu, the power of fire has not disappeared. It is the same for the fire of the Buddha’s wisdom: when he has burned up all the passions (kleśa) and illumined all things, the zeal associated with this wisdom (prajñā-saṃprayukta-chanda) is not extinguished. [...]”.

Source: academia.edu: A Study and Translation of the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā

Kalpoddāha (कल्पोद्दाह) refers to the “time of the final conflagration”, according to the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā: the eighth chapter of the Mahāsaṃnipāta (a collection of Mahāyāna Buddhist Sūtras).—Accordingly, “Just as, son of good family, open space does not get burned at the time of the final conflagration (kalpoddāha) and is not flooded in the destruction by 507 water [at the end of an aeon], in such a way, the meditation of the Bodhisattva does not get burned by any affliction and is not attached to the [four] meditations, [eight] liberations, concentrations, and attainments of meditation. [The meditation of Bodhisattva] establishes living beings with distracted thoughts in the state of concentration. [...]”.

Source: De Gruyter: A Buddhist Ritual Manual on Agriculture

Kalpoddāha (कल्पोद्दाह) refers to the “conflagration of the aeon”, according to the Vajratuṇḍasamayakalparāja, an ancient Buddhist ritual manual on agriculture from the 5th-century (or earlier), containing various instructions for the Sangha to provide agriculture-related services to laypeople including rain-making, weather control and crop protection.—Accordingly, [after the Bhagavān reached the lotus-lake near Aḍakavatī], “Then Vairambhaka, a Yakṣa leader belonging to the retinue of Māra, uttered a voice and sounded a cry in the Triple Thousand Great Thousand Universe, ‘Great dangers have arisen in the world, there is the conflagration of the aeon (kalpoddāha) in seven days. There is nothing here that will not burn completely from the highest point of the universe to Avīci’”.

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Mahayana (महायान, mahāyāna) is a major branch of Buddhism focusing on the path of a Bodhisattva (spiritual aspirants/ enlightened beings). Extant literature is vast and primarely composed in the Sanskrit language. There are many sūtras of which some of the earliest are the various Prajñāpāramitā sūtras.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Uddaha, Kalpa.

Ends with: Mahakalpoddaha.

Full-text: Uddaha, Namamatra.

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Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra (by Gelongma Karma Migme Chödrön)

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