Abstract
In the Theravāda tradition, various lists exist regarding the number of Buddhas, yet there is broad consensus on twenty-eight. Each of these Buddhas is said to have attained Awakening beneath a specific Bodhi Tree. The site of Awakening, however, remains the same for all—Bodh Gaya. Building on this foundation, the present study examines the Bodhi Trees of the twenty-eight Buddhas. The analysis demonstrates how Buddhism transformed ordinary trees into enduring sacred symbols, linking the terrestrial and the divine, the ecological and the soteriological, in the pursuit of Awakening.