Bodhi Tree
Bodhi Tree. Literally the ‘tree of awakening’, also known as the Bo Tree, it is the tree under which
Siddhārtha Gautama is believed to have gained enlightenment (
bodhi) after meditating under it for 49 days. In
Pāli it is known as the bodhirukkha, in
Sanskrit as the bodhivṛkṣa, and it is known to botanists as
ficus religiosa. Given its close association with the occasion of his attaining Buddhahood, the tree has great symbolic significance and according to legend is the centre of the world and the spot at which all
Buddhas past and future gain enlightenment. In the twelfth year of his reign,
Aśoka's daughter
Saṅghamittā took a branch of the Bodhi Tree to
Sri Lanka. When the original Bodhi Tree was destroyed in the 7th century it was replaced with another one from the shoot exported to
Sri Lanka by King
Aśoka in the third century bce. This was planted in the Mahābodhi temple where it flourishes today. Each
Buddha is associated with a particular Bodhi Tree, but since the earliest accounts of the Buddha's enlightenment fail to mention a tree, it is possible that the cult of the Bodhi Tree is a more recent addition. It has become customary to plant a Bodhi Tree, if possible a cutting, in every monastery (
vihāra) to indicate the presence of the
Dharma. In early Buddhist art the figure of the Buddha was not portrayed, and the image of the tree, along with other symbols, was used to represent him.
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: the early years.
Magazine article from: Black Music Research Journal; 9/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...reference books state that Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was born in London on August...the father of the composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (Fyfe 1962, 407). The...of the African doctor and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's mother and that Samuel...
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One-hit wonder; Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Hiawatha was as popular in the 1900s as Andrew Lloyd Webber's musicals are today. But, as the first release of the composer's violin concerto reveals, he never bettered it.
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England); 4/7/2004; 700+ words
; ...more than local celebrity. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was the first black composer...dormant composers lie, but Coleridge-Taylor's is an uneasy rest. Some...Scolar Press, 1995). Coleridge-Taylor was born in Holborn on 15...
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Violin Concertos by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) and Dvorák (1841-1904)
Magazine article from: Strings; 11/1/2004; ; 489 words
; Violin Concertos by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) and Dvork...and a beloved masterpiece. Coleridge-Taylor, son of a doctor from Sierra...noticeably Bruch and Dvork, Coleridge-Taylor's hero, who had himself...
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The marriage of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Jessie Walmisley.
Magazine article from: Black Music Research Journal; 9/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...the last Saturday of 1899, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor married Jessie Sarah Fleetwood...Mrs. Walmisley invited Coleridge-Taylor to the family home in nearby...acceptance if not of warmth (Coleridge-Taylor 1943, 20, 26). To learn...
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African Heritage Symphonic Series, Volume 1: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Fela Sowande. Paul Freeman, Chicago Sinfonietta. Cedille Records CDR 90000 055.(Review)
Magazine article from: Sensible Sound; 6/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...African Heritage Symphonic Series, Volume 1: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Fela Sowande. Paul...program begins with two pieces by British-born Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912), "Danse Negre" from his "African...
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Celebrate black history month with "classically black": A salute to African-English composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Friday, February 8, at 7 p.m. on WUSF 89.7. (Public Broadcasting).
Magazine article from: Sarasota Magazine; 1/1/2002; 497 words
; ...African-English composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. This newest installment...musicians and scholars discussing Coleridge-Taylor's artistry. His best...Born in England in 1875, Coleridge-Taylor was the son of an English...
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Shakespeare, Coleridge, intellecturition.(Samuel Taylor Coleridge's criticism of William Shakespeare)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Studies in Romanticism; 3/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...PAGES OF THE BOLLINGEN COLLECTED Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge are given over to Coleridge's notes, comments, reflections, marginalia...masse to the remarkable gregariousness of Coleridge the Shakespearean. The poems and plays...
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Coleridge unbound. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Magazine article from: The New Leader; 5/14/1990; ; 700+ words
; Would we regard Samuel Taylor Coleridge differently if he had not lived...course! argues Richard Holmes in Coleridge.- Early Visions viking, 409...death at age 62, the world knew Coleridge as a philosopher and fascinating...
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Discovery and the domestic affections in Coleridge and Shelley.(Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Shelley)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; 9/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; In the fall of 1797, as Samuel Taylor Coleridge was writing "The Rime of the...tales of the unknown exerted on Coleridge's imagination; he even bestowed...before." (4) In August 1806, Coleridge himself recited the Mariner...
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Coleridge's Biographia Literaria.(Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Magazine article from: The Explicator; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...extensive footnotes in chapter 4 of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Biographia Literaria takes...immediately above the footnote, Coleridge had written of the critics...themselves in the wrong [...]" (Coleridge 230). By way of commenting...
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Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor The British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) was the first major classical...life are tangled. Named for the British poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, he was born on August 15, 1875, in London...
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Born: October 21, 1772 Devonshire...England English poet and author Samuel Taylor Coleridge was a major poet of the English...of society. Childhood talents Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the tenth and last child of...
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor 1875-1912, English composer. He studied violin and composition...and A Tale of Old Japan (1911). Bibliography: See J. F. Coleridge-Taylor, Genius and Musician (1943).
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Taylor, Samuel Coleridge-
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Taylor, Samuel Coleridge-. See Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel .
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Samuel Taylor Coleridge The English author Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was a major poet of the romantic...organization of society. Born on Oct. 21, 1772, Samuel Taylor Coleridge was the tenth and last child of the vicar of Ottery...
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