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ཨུ་དུམ་བ་ར། | Glossary of Terms
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ཤིང་ཨུ་དུམ་བ་ར།
- ཨུ་དུམ་བ་ར།
- u dum ba ra
- shing u dum ba ra
- udumbara
- uḍumbara
- Term
- uḍumbara
- ཨུ་དུམ་བ་ར།
- u dum ba ra
- uḍumbara
A flower that is said to bloom only once every eon.
- uḍumbara
- ཨུ་དུམ་བ་ར།
- u dum ba ra
- uḍumbara
A kind of flower that blooms so infrequently that it became a metaphor for rarity.
- uḍumbara
- ཨུ་དུམ་བ་ར།
- u dum ba ra
- udumbara
- uḍumbara
The mythological flower of the fig tree said to appear on rare occasions, such as the birth of a buddha. The actual fig tree flower is contained within the fruit. The flower also came to be portrayed as a kind of lotus.
- udumbara
- ཨུ་དུམ་བ་ར།
- u dum ba ra
- udumbara
Ficus glomerata.
- udumbara
- ཨུ་དུམ་བ་ར།
- u dum ba ra
- udumbara
Ficus glomerata; cluster fig.
- cluster fig
- ཨུ་དུམ་བ་ར།
- u dum ba ra
- uḍumbara
- udumbara
Ficus glomerata.
- cluster fig tree
- ཤིང་ཨུ་དུམ་བ་ར།
- shing u dum ba ra
- udumbara
Ficus Glomerata according to the Pandanus Database of Plants.
- fig flower
- ཨུ་དུམ་བ་ར།
- u dum ba ra
- udumbara
The mythological flower of the fig tree said to appear on rare occasions, such as the birth of a buddha. The actual fig tree flower is contained within the fruit. The flower also came to be portrayed as a kind of lotus.
- fig tree flower
- ཨུ་དུམ་བ་ར།
- u dum ba ra
- udumbara
The mythological flower of the fig tree, said to appear on rare occasions, such as the birth of a buddha. The actual fig tree flower is contained within the fruit.