ཨུ་དུམ་བཱ་རའི་མེ་ཏོག | Glossary of Terms
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ཨུ་དུམ་བཱ་རའི་མེ་ཏོག
- u dum bA ra’i me tog
- u dum bA ra'i me tog
- udumbarakusuma
- Term
- fig-tree flowers
- ཨུ་དུམ་བཱ་རའི་མེ་ཏོག
- u dum bA ra’i me tog
- udumbarakusuma
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.
A simile for rarity, as fig trees do not have discernible blossoms. In Tibet, the udumbara (Ficus glomerata), being unknown, came to be portrayed as a gigantic, lotus-like flower.