Pluralism and Identity: Studies in Ritual Behaviour
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RITUALS AROUND THE BODHI-TREE IN BODHGAYA, INDIA Albertina Nugteren (Theologische Faculteit Tilburg) The worship of trees in ancient India The worship of trees is an ancient Indian custom and has been kept alive up to the present day.1 We find traces of the special veneration for trees in pre-Aryan remains, such as in the stone seals of the Indus civilization.2 There is an abundance of ritualistic, liturgical, philosophical, mythical and narrative references to trees in the ...