Two days ago, in a comment on Joyce Kilmer’s poem Trees, our friend Arbind Kumar mentioned the sacred Pipal tree in the Mahabodhi Temple complex in Bodh Gaya. Curious, I did some research: the revered tree is a Ficus religiosa, a descendant of the original tree under which Siddhartha Gautama, the teacher who would later […]

The Bodhi Tree and Bodhi Day: The Celebration of the Buddha’s Enlightenment☸️