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 ...

In time, the Bodhi tree became a symbol of political power for the Sinhalese Kings until the arrival of the Sacred Tooth Relic of the Buddha in the 4th century. There are unbroken records of Royal ...

Late Anuradhapura period which refers to the latter part of when ... and the 'bodhi' (Bo tree symbolising the enlightenment of the Buddha under a tree) also was begun during this period. These were ...