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| Sunday, 19 September 2004 |
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World's oldest and most venerated tree
H.G. Wells, a world renowned historian, has this to say about this Bo-tree: "In Sri Lanka, there grows to this day, a tree, the oldest Historical Tree in the world, which we know certainly to have been planted as a cutting from the Bo Tree in the year 245 BC. From that time to this, it has been carefully tendered and watered. Its great branches are supported by pillars. It helps us to realise the shortness of all human history to see so many generations spanned by the endurance of one single Tree. The Sacred Bo Tree is believed to be a sapling of the Bo Tree from Buddhagaya in India, which was brought to Sri Lanka by Sangamitta Meheniya. |
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The Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi at the ancient city of Anuradhapura is
considered to be more than 2600 years old. It is believed that this Bo
tree provided shade and shelter to Gautama (Sakyamuni) Buddha at the time
of his Enlightenment.
