WORLD RELIGIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -The Bodhi Tree ("tree of awakening"), also called the Mahabodhi Tree, Bo Tree, is a large sacred fig tree (Ficus religiosa) located in Bodh Gaya, Bihar, India. Siddhartha Gautama, the spiritual teacher who became known as the Buddha, is said to have attained enlightenment or buddhahood circa 500 BCE under this tree.

Detailed explanation-2: -Native to the Indian subcontinent, the peepal belongs to Moraceae, the fig or mulberry family and is also known as the bodhi tree, pippala tree, or ashwattha tree (in India and Nepal).

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Enlightened after seven days, he renamed the tree the Bodhi Tree (Tree of Wisdom) and began to teach and to share his new understandings. At that point he became known as the Buddha (the Awakened or the Enlightened).