来自MSN1 个月
A tree on India-Pakistan border is a tourist magnet. It’s a Peepal that swallowed a pillar
Common names: Sacred Fig Tree (English); Ashwattha (Sanskrit); Peepal Tree, Bodhi Tree (Hindi) Scientific name: Ficus religiosa L. Family: Fig (Moraceae) Where to see: India and Pakistan border at ...
BBC5 年
Tremendous trees
Buddhists revere this sacred fig tree as they believe it is a cutting from the Bodhi Tree. They say that Prince Siddhartha Guatama, while meditating beneath the Bodhi Tree, attained enlightenment ...
BBC6 年
Bodhi Day
Gather the children's ideas and conclude: 'Bodhi Day is marked in Buddhist homes by mediation and by decorating a small fig tree with coloured beads and lights. Families enjoy Jataka tales too ...
lse4 年
Our Logo
The logo has been designed by Oroon Das, a graphics designer and curator based in New Delhi. The logo of the South Asia Centre is a leaf from the Sacred Fig tree (Ficus religiosa), known popularly ...
来自MSN2 个月
On Bodhi Day, Buddhists commemorate Siddhartha Gautama’s enlightenment by lighting lamps ...
Bodhi means enlightenment or awakening in Sanskrit ... Siddhartha decided to meditate under a pipal tree, also known as a sacred fig tree, until he reached enlightenment. Over the next seven ...
UNESCO1 年
Sacred City of Anuradhapura
This sacred city was established around a cutting from the 'tree of enlightenment', the Buddha's fig tree, brought there in the 3rd century B.C. by Sanghamitta, the founder of an order of Buddhist ...