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ཨུ་དུམ་བ་ར། | Glossary of Terms
ཨུ་དུམ་བ་ར།
u dum ba ra
udumbara
- Term
- Uḍumbara
- ཨུ་དུམ་བཱ་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་བཱ་ར།
- u dum bA ra
- udumbara
Ficus glomerata.
- Udumbara
- ཨུ་དུམ་བ་ར།
- u dum ba ra
- udumbara
Ficus glomerata; cluster fig.
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- Cluster fig
- ཨུ་དུམ་བཱ་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་བཱ་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.