84000 Glossary of Terms
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བླག་ཤ། | Glossary of Terms
བླག་ཤ།
blag sha
plakṣa
- Term
Publications: 6
Translation by Catherine Dalton · Heidi Koppl · James Gentry · Cortland Dahl · Hilary Herdman · Andreas Doctor
- Fig tree
- བླག་ཤ།
- blag sha
- plakṣa
Translation by David Jackson
- Holy fig
- པླག་ཤ།
- plag sha
- plakṣa
Ficus religiosa or the waved-leaf fig tree, Ficus infectoria.
Translation by Peter Alan Roberts
- Pippala tree
- བླག་ཤ།
- blag sha
- plakṣa
A general name for the Ficus religiosa under which the buddha attained enlightenment and is therefore also called the Bodhi tree and Bo tree. Variations of the name include pipal, pippal, peepul, and ashwata.
Translation by James Gentry
- Plakṣa
- བླཀྵ།
- blak+Sha
- plakṣa
Translation by Tom Tillemans
- Waved-leaf fig tree
- བླག་ཤ།
- blag sha
- plakṣa
Monier-Williams s.v. plakṣa: “Ficus Infectoria (a large and beautiful tree with small white fruit).”
Translation by Peter Alan Roberts
- Wavy-leaf fig tree
- བླག་ཤ།
- blag sha
- plakṣa
Ficus infectoria. Full English name: White fruited wavy-leaf fig tree.