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菩提樹 is the full title of the Bodhi tree (a fig tree) under which Siddhartha Gautama (the legendary man who established the Buddhist religion), achieved enlightenment.
Sometimes this is referred to as “the tree of enlightenment.” If you don't have a Bodhi tree to sit under, maybe you can achieve enlightenment under a wall scroll with this title.
Below are some entries from our dictionary that may match your 菩提樹 search...
Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
菩提樹 菩提树 see styles |
pú tí shù pu2 ti2 shu4 p`u t`i shu pu ti shu bodaiju; bodaiju ぼだいじゅ; ボダイジュ |
More info & calligraphy: The Tree of Enlightenment / The Bodhi Tree(1) Tilia miqueliana (species of linden tree); (2) (See インドボダイジュ) sacred fig (Ficus religiosa); bodhi tree; bo tree; peepal tree; pipal tree; (given name) Bodaiju bodhidruma, bodhitaru, bodhivṛkṣa; the wisdom-tree, i.e. that under which Śākyamuni attained his enlightenment, and became Buddha. The Ficus religiosa is the pippala, or aśvattha, wrongly identified by Faxian as the palm-tree; it is described as an evergreen, to have been 400 feet high, been cut down several times, but in the Tang dynasty still to be 40 or 50 feet high. A branch of it is said to have been sent by Aśoka to Ceylon, from which sprang the celebrated Bo-tree still flourishing there. |
菩提樹下 菩提树下 see styles |
pú tí shù xià pu2 ti2 shu4 xia4 p`u t`i shu hsia pu ti shu hsia bodai ju ge |
beneath the bodhi tree |
菩提樹神 菩提树神 see styles |
pú tí shù shén pu2 ti2 shu4 shen2 p`u t`i shu shen pu ti shu shen Bodaiju jin |
The goddess-guardian of the Bo-tree. |
印度菩提樹 see styles |
indobodaiju; indobodaiju いんどぼだいじゅ; インドボダイジュ |
(kana only) sacred fig (Ficus religiosa); peepul; bo-tree; bodhi tree; pippala tree; ashwattha tree |
ベンガル菩提樹 see styles |
bengarubodaiju; bengarubodaiju ベンガルぼだいじゅ; ベンガルボダイジュ |
(kana only) Indian banyan (Ficus benghalensis); banyan tree |
Variations: |
indobodaiju; indobodaiju インドぼだいじゅ; インドボダイジュ |
(kana only) sacred fig (Ficus religiosa); bodhi tree; bo tree; peepal tree; pipal tree |
釋迦牟尼佛成道在菩提樹降魔讚 释迦牟尼佛成道在菩提树降魔讚 see styles |
shì jiā mù ní fó chéng dào zài pú tí shù jiàng mó zàn shi4 jia1 mu4 ni2 fo2 cheng2 dao4 zai4 pu2 ti2 shu4 jiang4 mo2 zan4 shih chia mu ni fo ch`eng tao tsai p`u t`i shu chiang mo tsan shih chia mu ni fo cheng tao tsai pu ti shu chiang mo tsan Shakamuni butsujōdō zai bodaiju gōma san |
Hymn to Śakyamūṇi's Path to Buddhahood Under the Bodhi Tree, and His Triumph over Māra |
The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
The Tree of Enlightenment The Bodhi Tree | 菩提樹 菩提树 | bodaiju | pú tí shù pu2 ti2 shu4 pu ti shu putishu | p`u t`i shu putishu pu ti shu |
In some entries above you will see that characters have different versions above and below a line. In these cases, the characters above the line are Traditional Chinese, while the ones below are Simplified Chinese. |
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When the calligrapher finishes creating your artwork, it is taken to my art mounting workshop in Beijing where a wall scroll is made by hand from a combination of silk, rice paper, and wood.
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The wall scroll that Sandy is holding in this picture is a "large size"
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We also offer custom wall scrolls in small, medium, and an even-larger jumbo size.
Professional calligraphers are getting to be hard to find these days.
Instead of drawing characters by hand, the new generation in China merely type roman letters into their computer keyboards and pick the character that they want from a list that pops up.
There is some fear that true Chinese calligraphy may become a lost art in the coming years. Many art institutes in China are now promoting calligraphy programs in hopes of keeping this unique form
of art alive.
Even with the teachings of a top-ranked calligrapher in China, my calligraphy will never be good enough to sell. I will leave that to the experts.
The same calligrapher who gave me those lessons also attracted a crowd of thousands and a TV crew as he created characters over 6-feet high. He happens to be ranked as one of the top 100 calligraphers in all of China. He is also one of very few that would actually attempt such a feat.
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