San Diego has the perfect set of environmental conditions for fig trees to thrive. Gardeners who want a fig tree in their ...

Rest assured, no such accident has ever been reported. Even the Buddha, who is said to have meditated for a very long time under a fig tree and attained Nirvana there, was not a victim of ...

His search took him six years, but he became enlightened while meditating under a fig tree. Following this, Siddhattha became known as the Buddha, which means the 'awakened' or 'enlightened' one.

This sacred city was established around a cutting from the 'tree of enlightenment', the Buddha's fig tree, brought there in the 3rd century B.C. by Sanghamitta, the founder of an order of Buddhist ...