The Buddha achieved enlightenment when he meditated beneath a sacred pipal tree for 49 days. Ram Bomjon is also sitting beneath a pipal tree, in the same posture as the Buddha is depicted ...

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

The mystery deepened on Christmas Eve when, after a nine-month disappearance, the Boy Buddha suddenly reappeared. On March 11 he had left his niche among the roots of a pipal tree in the Bara ...

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 ...

following the tradition that the Peepal tree is a symbol of marital rituals. It is said that Buddha attained enlightenment under the Peepal tree. Hence, the tree is seen as a source of higher ...