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Udumbara (Sanskrit) is the name of a flower in Buddhist mythology.

According to the Buddhist scriptures, it blossomed once before the birth of Buddha, and it may blossom only every three thousand years from that point. Buddhists regard it as a supernatural omen when it blossoms. In Buddhist writings, the blossoming of the Udumbara is used to stress the rare preciousness of an event or occasion. Also in some Buddhist scriptures it is said that this flower blossoms every 3000 years, coinciding with the time that the King of Falun comes to the human world to save the people.


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