Noted poet Edwin Arnold in his well-known poem, ‘The Light of Asia’ talks about Gautam Siddharth’s enlightenment under the Bodhi tree. Bodh Gaya was then described as the Mecca of Buddhism ...

The banyan tree also holds a prominent place in Indian ... Lord Buddha attaianed enlightenment under the Peepal tree in Bodh Gaya, known as the MahaBodhi Tree. The Peepal tree also finds mention ...

The tree is located at the Mahabodhi temple complex in Bodh Gaya, about 115 km south of Patna, Bihar’s capital. Within the temple too, visitors are sparse. The crowd is a couple of kilometres ...

Bodh Gaya in Bihar, India ... had planted a dry shoot of a banyan tree in their courtyard and assumed that only a true saint could transform it into a lush green thing. As the story goes, Kabir ...

now known as the Bodhi Tree, in the place now known as Bodh Gaya (‘place of enlightenment’). Retreats are essential in Buddhism. Whether Buddhists are alone or in a group, time taken to focus ...