... the merely antiarahant in a corner of sarnath around a bend of trees that stays perpetually in shade or night there is a black rock with white chalky scratches everwording in english "a path for... deep depression eventually the town turned against him and buried him alive and the last king of siam built a great stupa on top of his mound hardy gave the letter to watson where they ...

..., as the passages just quoted show. Pliny states that trees were the first temples. Their shade, solitude, and solemn stillness suggested this use. The superstitious abuse of them to idolatry and licentious...knowledge (Genesis 3), may be traced in Egypt, Arabia, Syria, Assyria, Persia, India, Thibet, Siam, China, Japan, Ceylon, the Philippine isles. The Druids venerated oak groves (Pliny, H. N...