Asaṃkhyeya

Asaṃkhyeya is a big, big, big number in Buddhism. It's so big that we can't even count it because it's basically infinite!

Imagine you have a bunch of toys, like Legos or blocks. If you only have a small pile of toys, that's called a "finite" amount. But if you have so many toys that the pile is bigger than you can count, that's "infinite."

Asaṃkhyeya is the Buddhist way of describing an infinite number of things. Instead of saying "a lot" or "too many to count," they say "asaṃkhyeya." It's like saying "infinity" in math, but for things in the world around us.

So when we talk about how many things there are in the world, or how many times we might be reborn, Buddhists use the idea of asaṃkhyeya to show that it's a really, really big number – so big that we can't even imagine it!