6 Realms and Kalpa's

[kalden yungdrung]

Tashi delek DW members,

Kalpas come and go.

- Why would it not be that the 6 Realms used in Tib.Buddhism etc. , dissolve into emptiness?
- I guess in Tibetan Buddhism is also used the Hindhu (vert. and horizontal) cosmological time table etc.?
- Are the 6 Realms not somewhere inside the kalpa's functioning?


Mutsug Marro
KY

[Malcolm]

- Why would it not be that the 6 Realms used in Tib.Buddhism etc. , dissolve into emptiness?

They do, at the end of every major eon, beginning with the hell realms and continuing up to the third realm. Everything below that is destroyed.

[kalden yungdrung]

- Why would it not be that the 6 Realms used in Tib.Buddhism etc. , dissolve into emptiness?

They do, at the end of every major eon, beginning with the hell realms and continuing up to the third realm. Everything below that is destroyed.

Tashi delek N,

The 4 heavens of Brahma, form an exception in this proces.
- How can it be explained that the Hindhu as well Buddhist Cosmology are identical?

There seems to be something inside these realms but according Buddhism it is not a place to dwell.
It seems to be the Shakya Buddha did dwell inSamadhi etc. in those realms.

But yes indeed the 6 Realms are not eternal seen.

Understood that the Dzogchenpas the 3 Bodies also see as temporal on the Path.
So there is many not seen as eternal in , a difficult topic in Buddhism.

Mutsug Marro
KY

[Karma Dondrup Tashi]

- How can it be explained that the Hindhu as well Buddhist Cosmology are identical?

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Interesting issue but surely this is not correct?

Anyway there is not just 1 Buddhist cosmology, e.g. in TB:

[kalden yungdrung]

- Why would it not be that the 6 Realms used in Tib.Buddhism etc. , dissolve into emptiness?

They do, at the end of every major eon, beginning with the hell realms and continuing up to the third realm. Everything below that is destroyed.

Tashi delek N,

Thanks for your reply.

But the 6 Realms are ultimately not destroyed, i guess, because some where else do sentient beings exist.
Or is it that ALL and everywhere the 6 Realms are gone and that we have an intermediate state to the next 6 Realms? A break or something like that?

Mutsug Marro
KY