Our World

According to scientific reports, our earth is 4.5 billion years old (4,500,000,000), and human beings come into existence 2 million years ago (2,000,000).

Time in Buddhist cosmology is measured in kalpa. A Kalpa is considered to be 4,320,000,000 (4.32 billion) human years. A kalpa is one day or one night of Brahma, who is the Supreme God the Creator.

According to the Buddha: “The universe is shown to be one nebulous mass, sunk in darkness, soon appear in a liquid state from which the earth emerges. The earth is then showed to be visited with life from the Abbassara world, there to go through various transformations as a result of the desires of these luminous beings. In the course of transformation, time, light and darkness appear”.

We are from the life form of another world two million years ago. The Buddha acknowledged that we are now the third creation of mankind in this period of modern human beings. According to scientific reports, the modern human beings are now two hundred thousands years old (200,000).