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"Worldviews that Inform Tree Worship in India" - Coggle Diagram
"Worldviews that Inform Tree Worship in India"
Humans who belonged to a religion made sure that they were able to worship the trees around them in creation.
Bodhi Tree = divine relation, insight, and achievement spiritually under those of the Buddha
From a mythology standpoint, trees were one of the biggest components when the world was created.
Humans and trees connect in that they provide for one another and care for each other.
Temples consisted of the shelter that the trees provided as well as the groves.
Through different rituals in India, trees were looked at as being that ladder between what heaven was and what the earth was.
Each religion looks at worshipping trees in different ways.
Individual trees = gods and goddesses in different cultures
Many religions appreciate that trees provide unique gifts and have a purpose in life.
Trees have feelings and a conscience just like we do.
In India, trees, plants, and humans have a unique relationship that humans look at them as having a soul.
To satisfy empire needs, amounts of forests went up.
This helped with necessary accommodations for the real world such as building ships and creating railroads to get from one place to the other.
Deforestation has now occurred in India.
Humans differ from the trees that appear sacred which leads us to the role that religion plays.
No one actually knows the philosophy behind the idea of humans worshipping trees.
While man and tree founded religions, each culture acts differently to how they want to go about worshipping.
In India, plants and humans are looked at as one (reflect Malla).
One source for everything: Purusha.
Atman = lord and king of all in India
World shows no form (amurta) and form (murta). Some things are changeable, others aren't.
Bhagavad Gita - two forms of Purusha (immutable and mutable). Both run into each other in worldviews.
Humans ultimately look at things differently through their different religions with how they worship trees and whatnot. However, they approach sacred reality about as similarly as possible though.
Manifestian of life - "Brahman's supreme creation" (brahmano ati-srishti). "Whole world is Brahman" (Haberman, David L.).
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