When the great King Anawrahta of Pagan united the whole of Burma into a single kingdom in the eleventh century and made Theravada Buddhism the ... over a small withered tree was as much a Nat ...

Zen rock gardens, or karesansui (translated as "dry-mountain-water"), originated in ... the ur-site of the type—powerful, abstract, Zen Buddhist landscapes designed to invoke deep meditation." ...

K Medhankara Thero, a prominent Buddhist monk expressed his happiness ... The monk also emphasized the spiritual significance of the Bodhi tree, saying, "To come here and take darshan of Bodhi ...