Bo-tree

That part of his life which extended from his birth to his enlightenment under the Bo-tree.

Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 Frank F. Ellinwood

It was when Gautama rose up from his meditation and his high resolve under the Bo-tree, that he began his career as "The Enlightened."

Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 Frank F. Ellinwood

Bo-tree, — henceforth to be accounted sacred (12) — the struggles of his soul prevailed, and he passed out of darkness into light.

Religion in Japan

The juniper-tree in Christianity is the exception; the Bo-tree of Buddhism, with the same despondent estimate, is the rule.

Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 Frank F. Ellinwood

The same is true of others of the gods; in the old Norse mythology Ygdrasil was the great branching World-Ash, abode of the soul of the universe; the Peepul or Bo-tree in India is very sacred and must on no account be cut down, seeing that gods and spirits dwell among its branches.

Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning 1920

There then abiding seven days in the Fruition which has Nibbana as its object, and, in the same manner, abiding yet other seven days on the Bo-tree seat, he partook of sweet food beneath the Rājāyatana tree. 67 Then, again, seated beneath the Goatherds 'Banyan, he reflected on the depth of the essence of the Norm.

Psalms of the Sisters Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys 1909

I.e., when he left the Bo-tree as Buddha and went to preach his first sermon at Isipatana by Benares.

Psalms of the Sisters Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys 1909

Then one day she came up to the Bo-tree of the Master 172 and sat down, thinking: 'If a Buddha, an Exalted One, be unequalled and peerless among men, may this one show me the miracle of Buddhahood.'

Psalms of the Sisters Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys 1909

The Commentator explains this intrusion of Nāla, a village 'in Magadha, near the Bo-tree' (of Gayā) (see Ps. lix.), by saying it was Upaka's native place, and that the pair had gone to live there.

Psalms of the Sisters Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys 1909

So, in the full moon of July, he went from the Great Bo-tree toward Benāres.

Psalms of the Sisters Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys 1909