-- Flower and Tree Magic: Discover the Natural Enchantment Around You, by Richard Webster, Llewellyn, 2008. Buddha attained enlightment while sitting under a fig tree.

The fig tree was intimately connected with Nathanael’s realization of Christ’s divinity, a realization that later compelled him to share the love of God with the people of India, where I ...

The 2,500-year-old tree under which Gautama Buddha is believed to have attained enlightenment is alive and healthy, Indian scientists said Thursday.

While the biology amazed me, I soon came to realise that figs were also connected to our own story in profound ways. Queen Elizabeth II was asleep up a fig tree when she inherited the throne. The ...

The Bodhi — or ‘enlightened’ tree — is believed to be the fourth or fifth descendant of the original tree that existed during the days of the Buddha 2,600 years ago. A type of fig tree ...

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 ...

An ancient pipal tree, Ficus religiosa or sacred fig, grows at the back of the temple, said to be a descendent of the one Buddha sat under for three days and nights in the sixth century BC, before ...

Tales of corruption, looting and religious rivalry are swirling around the spot where Buddha is said to have gained enlightenment in eastern India some 2,500 years ago, sullying one of Buddhism's ...

Buddhists celebrate Dharma Day the anniversary of Buddha's first sermon after his enlightenment. In this teaching, he shared an important truth: that everything in life is interconnected, which the ...