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Scientists save Bodh Gaya's
holy Buddhist tree
By Imran
Khan, New kerala, July 6, 2005 (Buddhist News Network -
July 7, 2005)
Patna, India -- Scientists have saved a tree in
Bihar's Bodh Gaya town - where the Buddha attained
enlightenment 2,500 years ago - from infection, disease
and pollution.
<< Successful rehabilation of the 110 years old Bodhi
Tree
The 110-year-old Bodhi tree behind the Mahabodhi temple,
which grew from the original banyan tree under which the
Buddha attained enlightenment, has seen new leaves after
three years.
"Experts treated the tree for three years using various
measures," Anil Kumar Singh, regional director at the
Agriculture Research Centre here, told IANS.
According to scientists at the centre, the tree bore new
leaves after three years. The bark has also regained its
original colour, which indicates good health.
The tree was attacked by milibug disease five years ago.
An alarm was raised by the Mahabodhi Temple Management
Committee when the leaves started turning black.
Tracing Buddhisms march
through Asia
The Dhamma Times, 1 August 2004
International Herald Tribune, London
- It is not easy to travel 10,000 kilometers, all the
way from Western Iran to Eastern China, in just one
show. The "Silk Road" exhibition on view at the British
Library until Sept. 12 must have left Susan Whitfield,
the organizer and editor of the mammoth book that comes
with it, exhausted. Subtitled "Trade, Travel, War and
Faith," it meanders between documents and works of art
without ever achieving a sense of direction.
A
Blonde Moment in Bagan
By
HEATHER RAMSAY, New Zealand Herald, Oct 10, 2004
(Buddhist News
Network, 10 October 2004)
The ancient Shwezigon Paya is the most important
Buddhist shrine in Bagan.
Picture / Dennis Richardson
Bagan, Myanmar --
Is it original?" The gentle voice startled me, and I
turned to find a crimson-clad monk nodding and beaming
widely. I had been taking notes and making rough
sketches at the Shwezigon Paya in Bagan, Myanmar, so I
assumed that he was referring to these.
Giant Buddha to rise in
northern India
by
Maseeh Rahman, The Guardian, July 15, 2004
New
Delhi, India --
The
world's biggest statue of the Buddha is to be built in
the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, dwarfing
other colossal representations of the religious leader
in Japan and China. The 150-metre-high Buddha Maitreya,
or Buddha of the Future, will be installed on a
267-hectare (660-acre) site at Kushinagar, a town on the
border with Nepal, where the Buddha died, or attained
nirvana, 2,500 years ago.
Cast
from bronze, the soaring Buddha will sit on a throne
which itself will be a 17-storey building housing a
smaller, 12-metre (40ft) statue and a vast prayer hall,
shrine rooms and terraced gardens. |
Bodhgaya,
India -- Buddhism's holiest shrine was on Thursday formally
dedicated as a world heritage site, with Indian officials saying
it would one day rival the Vatican or Mecca.