tree shrine

Chapter eight looks at tree shrines.

The Village The centrepiece of this environment is the Tree Shrine, which features the arts of devotional offering.

By May 1985 the guerrillas were strong enough to launch an attack on Anuradhapura, attacking the Bodhi Tree shrine - a sacred site for Buddhist Sinhalese - followed by a rampage through the town.

The Celts and Germans in the Low Countries were also most likely to have had tree shrines, following the example of the Old Norse Yggdrasil and the Saxon Irminsul and Donar's oak.

The pre-Mauryan timber structure appears to be an ancient bodhigara (tree shrine), consisting of postholes and a wooden railing surrounding a clay floor containing mineralized tree roots that appears to have been worn smooth by visitors.

The shrines, which Dr. Huyler built, have drawn a special interest from many of New York's Hindu residents: religious figures conducted a ceremony consecrating the tree shrine and some anonymous visitors have left flowers and small amounts of money as offerings, he said.

In November 2013, an international team of archaeologists digging under the temple discovered the remains of an ancient tree shrine dated before 550 BCE, which is possibly the earliest evidence of Buddhist structures ever found and possibly the first archaeological evidence of Gautama Buddha's life.