Saturday, March 02, 2024

Behold the tree

This lovely Gandhara sculpture, acquired by the Buddha Tooth Relic Museum in Singapore at a 2015 auction, shows what unfolds from the time of Siddhartha Gautama's enlightenment under the Bodhi tree (at right) to delivering his first sermon (at left). In the middle we see the now Buddha gazing in unblinking gratitude at the Bodhi tree - how he apparently spent the second week after his blissful breakthrough.