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bo tree
[ boh ]
noun
- the pipal, or sacred fig tree, Ficus religiosa, of India, under which the founder of Buddhism is reputed to have attained the Enlightenment that constituted him the Buddha.
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They are afterwards hung on the sacred Bo-tree, but never burned.
Making flower and other offerings to the great Bo-Tree, he walked round it.
In seven days the Bo-Tree remained there, invisible in the snowy womb, occasioning (renewed) delight in the populace.
At the termination of the seventh day, all these clouds dispersed, and displayed the Bo Tree, and its halo of six coloured rays.
From that circumstance also the monarch, overjoyed, a third time dedicated the empire to the great Bo-Tree.
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