Episode 39: The Bodhi Tree – My Favorite Trees

There’s more than one December holiday that centers around a tree! Bodhi Day celebrates that day when Siddhartha Gautama sat under a Bodhi Tree, achieved Enlightenment, and became the Buddha. Find out how this tree helped start a new religion and how you can celebrate this holiday in the modern-day. Music is by Acadamy Garden. Cover art is by @boomerangbrit on Instagram. Follow me on Facebook and Twitter @MyFavoriteTrees and now on Instagram @TreePodcast!

Sources:

https://www.britannica.com/plant/Moraceae

https://nitishpriyadarshi.blogspot.com/2011/05/importance-of-ficus-religosa-peepal.html

https://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/24168#tosummaryOfInvasiveness

https://indianexpress.com/article/parenting/learning/buddha-enlightenment-nirvana-5288593/

https://www.history.com/topics/religion/buddhism

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/introduction-cultures-religions-apah/hinduism-apah/a/hinduism-and-buddhism-an-introduction

https://www.incredibleindia.org/content/incredible-india-v2/en/destinations/bodh-gaya/bodhi-tree.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20161230013831/http://libweb.hawaii.edu/digicoll/annexation/petition/pet-intro.php

https://www.honolulumagazine.com/a-bodhi-tree-birthday/

https://www.worldhistory.org/Ashoka_the_Great/

https://www.historyhit.com/locations/the-sri-maha-bodhi-tree/

https://www.doityourself.com/stry/bodhi-day

One Reply to “Episode 39: The Bodhi Tree”

Lyle Latvala says:

December 21, 2021 at 4:27 pm

Thanks, Thomas … quite detailed. Enjoyed it very much. I grew up in Miami with lots of Banyan Trees, and maybe some of them were Bodhi trees.? I guess I’ll have to check for elliptical leaves or heart-shaped leaves on my next visit to south Florida! By the way, we pronounced “Banyan” as “ban-yen”, and you pronounced it as “bon-yen”. Where did you get your pronunciation? Time to go sit under a tree at ORPI (if I can find one without spikes) and meditate … 🙂

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