The fig tree is the first plant to be mentioned by name in the Bible: '[Adam and Eve] knew that they were naked; ... Buddha attained enlightment while sitting under a fig tree.

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

NEW DELHI: A descendant of the great tree under which Prince Siddharth became the Buddha (the enlightened one) after having ruminated for years on the sorrow and disease that afflict human life ...

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 ...

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 ...

Figs and fig trees are familiar to a wide cross-section of human society, both as a common food and for their spiritual importance. ... It was the tree under which Buddha received enlightenment.

BODH GAYA (India): 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...