84000 Glossary of Terms

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ཨུ་དུམ་བཱ་རའི་མེ་ཏོག | Glossary of Terms

  • ཨུ་དུམ་བཱ་རའི་མེ་ཏོག

  • u dum bA ra’i me tog
  • udumbarakusuma
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  • fig-tree flowers
  • ཨུ་དུམ་བཱ་རའི་མེ་ཏོག
  • u dum bA ra’i me tog
  • udumbarakusuma
Definition in this text:

A simile for rarity, as fig trees do not have discernible blossoms. In Tibet the udumbara (Ficus glomerata), being unknown, became portrayed as a gigantic lotuslike flower. The Chinese adds the adjective “rare” and, like the Tibetan, simply transliterates udumbara.