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པདྨ་གེ་སར་
Transliteration: padma ge sar
<phrase> 1) The name of a particular species of tree that is tall and has bright red flowers. The author has positively identified it with the help of Tibetan doctors as the tree bombax ceiba. The name is also used to mean the flower of the tree. Tibetan medicine lists three kinds of Gesar plant, including this one. 2) Abbrev. of པདྨའི་གེ་སར་ which refers to the pistil portion of a padma lo…
གེ་སར་
Transliteration: ge sar
<noun> 1) A corruption of the Sanskrit ཀེ་ས་ར་, a term having many meanings but generally referring to something have one or more filaments in its makeup. The term is Tibetan is used to mean the entire pollen producing and receiving area of a plant or flower. The closest term in English is "pollen bed". Note that there is also the Tibetan term ཟེའུ་འབྲུ་ which is sometimes used with the exa…
ནཱ་ག་གེ་སར་
Transliteration: n'a ga ge sar
<noun> "Nāga gesar". The name of a plant substance coming from the pistils of the flowers of the tree called Nāga in Indian language. Also known as ཀླུའི་གེ་སར་ "Pollen bed of the Nāga" and གླང་པོའི་གེ་སར་ "Pollen bed of the Elephant". 1) Used as a herbal component of medicine. 2) One of the དྲི་བཟང་བཞི་ four fine aromatics q.v.
པདྨ་
Transliteration: padma
<noun> "Padma". Translit. of the Sanskrit "padma". The name of the common lotus-flower / plant. 1) This was used as the prime metaphor for woman, both as humans and as the feminine principle in ancient India. Thus "padma" has extensive usage in Buddhist tradition, especially in the tantras, to mean either women or the feminine principle. 2) Metaphor for woman's genitals—the outer lips of th…