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 ...

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 ...

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 ...