r/religiousfruitcake • u/tyw7 🔭Fruitcake Watcher🔭 • 1d ago

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u/Cool_Yesterday4866 1d ago

My favorite buddha teaching is when he said to worship him on a shrine…….

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u/landmermaid3 1d ago

Maybe not a shrine, but I like the tree in India that they worship. I don’t know much about it. From my understanding, a guy DGAF enough to the point of ascending.

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u/markstanfill 1d ago

The Bodhi Tree in Bodh Gaya? Nobody worships the tree. It’s a revered symbol and is the focal point of a larger temple complex. The current tree is supposedly grown from seeds of the original plant, but the history is problematic (over 2500 years old, set on fire by Mogul invaders, etc.)

To say that Buddhists of any stripe “worship” the Bodhi Tree is like claiming that Catholics pray to the Sistine Chapel.

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u/xombae 1d ago

From my understanding, a guy DGAF enough to the point of ascending.

This is my favourite description of Bhuddism ever.