Shiva temple
June 18, 2007
This is a small 500+ year old Shiva temple near Varanasi where a lot of our mrytunjaya and Shiva yagyas are performed. This is the peepul tree which is revered in the Vedic and Buddhist traditions.
It was under a tree like this that the Buddha attained enlightenment and the Sri Maha Bodhi is found in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka and said to be a sapling from the original Bodhi tree under which the historical Buddha became enlightened. It was planted in 288 BC, and is the oldest living human-planted tree in the world with a known planting date!