From a tree that bloomed during Mahabharata to the one that grew during the Battle of Plassey in West Bengal, these trees in ...

Throughout history, certain trees have stood well beyond their botanical existence as emblems of profound human experience and milestones. From the very tree where an apple once inspired Isaac ...

The full moon of Vaishakh month (Vaishakh Purnima 2024) is called Buddha Purnima and Buddha Jayanti. Here is everything you ...

Such scholars believe that Ashoka arrived at the site, which was mentioned in scripture as the birthplace of the Buddha, and reappropriated the existing tree shrine as the nativity site.

The Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi tree in Anuradhapura is believed to have grown from a branch that an Indian princess carried to Sri Lanka. Here's the story of the tree, and why it is so significant for ...

An excerpt from ‘The Master of Unfinished Things,’ by Geet Chaturvedi, translated from the Hindi by Anita Gopalan.

There is barely anyone at the site of the peepal tree on the banks of the now-dry Niranjana river, where Siddhartha Gautama became the Buddha, after he is believed to have attained samma-sambodhi ...

Until shortly before then, the Buddha had been represented only by sets of symbols - the tree under which he achieved enlightenment, a pair of footprints, and so on. To give him human form was ...

The Buddha emerged from his mother’s side, as she stood leaning against a tree, in a painless and pure birth. He took seven steps and lotus flowers sprang up in his footsteps. A wise man ...

The Big Buddha looks out over it all ... his enlightenment under the Bodhi tree; the fourth, his life as a teacher and the fifth, his death and achievement of nirvana. From the sixth floor ...

The Mahabodhi Temple in Bodh Gaya is decorated on this day and devotees perform special prayers under the bodhi tree under which the Buddha is believed to have attained enlightenment. In India and ...