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He famously achieved enlightenment—his insights about the cause of suffering and the way to end it—while meditating under a pipal tree.

No trees, perhaps, are held in greater veneration in India, than the Ficus Religiosa or pipal tree.

Lifting his hat, he walked towards a huge pipal tree in the compound.

An old man came running up the road, between its walls of pipal trees, beating his mouth with the palm of his hand in a staccato lament.

Such a performance should be rated as a religious act like the planting of the pipal tree in India.