HISTORY
ANCIENT INDIA
|
Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
|
Siddhartha Gautama found enlightenment while sitting under what kind of tree?
|
|
Cherry
|
|
|
Birch
|
|
|
Bodhi
|
|
|
Willow
|
Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -After approaching but declining a mango tree, the Buddha chooses the fig tree (Ficus religiosa). The fig tree became known as the bodhi tree because the Buddha reached enlightenment (bodhi) after meditating beneath one such tree for 49 days.
Detailed explanation-2: -Gautama Buddha attained ‘Bodhi’-enlightenment while meditating under a pipal tree at Uruvela, near the city of Gaya in present day . Q.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Bodhi tree grew from the original banyan tree under which the Buddha attained enlightenment.
There is 1 question to complete.