I must say it makes one prefer Buddha, quietly sitting under a bo-tree, or Jesus, telling his disciples little Sunday stories, peacefully, and without any mental fireworks. ❋ Unknown (2004)
This is believed by Buddhists to be a branch of the sacred bo-tree in Buddh Gaya, India, under which Prince Siddhartha sat on the day he attained Buddha-hood, this branch having been sent from India; it has been sacredly treated, enriched with stone carvings and braces, and honored with magnificent ceremonies by repeated dynasties; it has also been spared during the successive invasions of the land. ❋ Ellen Mary Hayes Peck (N/A)
There are wonderful tales told of miraculous work done through the celebrated bo-tree, a branch of the oldest historical tree in the world. ❋ Ellen Mary Hayes Peck (N/A)
One day he enclosed in a letter a drawing which he had made showing Sakia Muni sitting under the bo-tree with two of his disciples, a young man and a young woman, gathered at his feet. ❋ Unknown (1921)
Why had Gotama, at that time, in the hour of all hours, sat down under the bo-tree, where the enlightenment hit him? ❋ Hermann Hesse (1919)
His manners and attitude towards the universe were the same, whether tossing in the middle of the Pacific Ocean sketching the trade-wind from a whale-boat in the blast of sea-sickness, or drinking the cha-no-yu in the formal rites of Japan, or sipping his cocoanut cup of kava in the ceremonial of Samoan chiefs, or reflecting under the sacred bo-tree at Anaradjpura. ❋ Unknown (1918)
We see the renunciation, the sojourn in the wilderness, the attainment under the bo-tree, the preaching of the Truth. ❋ Unknown (1897)
He thereupon abandoned further penance and devoted six years to meditation, sitting under the now famous bo-tree, near the modern town of Gaya. ❋ William Eleroy Curtis (1880)
Its scientific name is the _Ficus religiosa_; for it is the sacred fig of India, and it is called the bo-tree in Ceylon. ❋ Oliver Optic (1859)
A tree that passes for this one was discovered by a Chinese, still standing twelve hundred years after the death of the Buddha; and the bo-tree of Ceylon is regarded as its legitimate descendant. ❋ Oliver Optic (1859)
Here was also to be seen specimens of the sacred bo-tree and the camphor-tree of great size; one large conservatory was devoted solely to the cultivation of ferns, which the gardener said contained twenty thousand varieties, from the size of an infant's hand to tall trees. ❋ Maturin Murray Ballou (1857)
A sacred bo-tree was pointed out to us in the grounds near the temple, believed to be the oldest historical tree in the world. ❋ Maturin Murray Ballou (1857)
I slept for an hour or more under the bo-tree, held sacred by the worshippers of Buddah, in front of those strange, fantastic, and gigantic remains of a bygone age and people. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
After he and I had breakfasted, I felt very weary and sleepy; and so, feeling certain that he would keep a more vigilant watch over me than I could myself when awake, I lay down with perfect confidence on the ground, in the shade of a bo-tree, and slept as soundly as I ever did in my life. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
The great bo-tree of Ceylon was planted B.C. 288 years. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
The preparation of the high road for the procession of the sacred bo-tree after its landing ❋ James Emerson Tennent (1836)
Ceylon, and the belief in its venomous nature is as old as the third century B.C., when the _Mahawanso_ mentions that the wife of "King Asoca attempted to destroy the great bo-tree (at Magadha) _with the poisoned fang of a toad_." ❋ James Emerson Tennent (1836)
The _Mahawanso_, ch.xxx. p. 179, also speaks of the "_hanza_," as amongst the decorations chased on the stem of a bo-tree, modelled in gold, which was deposited by Dutugaimunu when building the Ruanwellé dagoba at Anarajapoora in the 2nd century before ❋ James Emerson Tennent (1836)
Kapila-Vastu (a city which has no place in the geography of the Hindus, but which appears to have been on the borders of Nepaul); he attained his superior Buddha-hood B.C. 588, under a bo-tree [3] in the forest of ❋ James Emerson Tennent (1836)
Adoration, however, does not necessarily imply a god; the Buddhist's worship under the bo-tree is not directed to any being; it is only the recognition of something that he thinks worthy of reverence. [ ❋ Crawford Howell Toy (1877)
