ཤིང་པ་རི་ཡ་ཏྲ་ཀ་ཀོ་བ་དི་ར། | Glossary of Terms
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ཤིང་པ་རི་ཡ་ཏྲ་ཀ་ཀོ་བ་དི་ར།
- shing pa ri ya tra ka ko ba di ra
- pāriyātrakakovidāra
- Term
- pāriyātrakakovidāra tree
- ཤིང་པ་རི་ཡ་ཏྲ་ཀ་ཀོ་བ་དི་ར།
- shing pa ri ya tra ka ko ba di ra
- pāriyātrakakovidāra RP
A flowering tree that grows in the Heaven of the Thirty-Three, with flowers that can be seen from fifty leagues away and a fragrance that can be smelled from one hundred leagues away. The blossoms of this tree delight the gods of the Heaven of the Thirty-Three, who eagerly watch and rejoice in each stage of their development. The kovidāra tree is glossed as Bauhinia variegata, which also bears the common names “orchid tree” or “purple orchid tree.” The name of this tree is misspelled in the attested Tibetan transliteration.