Udumbara
(Sk.)
A lotus of gigantic size, sacred to Buddha: the Nila Udumbara or “blue lotus”, regarded as a supernatural omen when ever it blossoms, for it flowers but once every three thousand years. One such, it is said, burst forth before the birth of Gautama, another, near a lake at the foot of the Himalayas, in the fourteenth century, just before the birth of Tsong‐kha‐pa, etc., etc. The same is said of the Udumbara tree (ficus glomerata) because it flowers at intervals of long centuries, as does also a kind of cactus, which blossoms only at extra ordinary altitudes and opens at midnight. (TG).
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- Quotes: H. P. Blavatsky
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Shortly: A lotus of gigantic size, sacred to Buddha: the Nila Udumbara or “blue lotus”, regarded as a sup...