Tourist attraction
Adyar Banyan Tree
Centuries-old banyan whose aerial roots form a grove of pillars, surviving the loss of its main trunk.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Adyar Banyan Tree in Chennai, on the grounds of the Theosophical Society, follows one enormous fig and the people who gathered in its shade. It starts with a line the philosopher Krishnamurti spoke to the society's president, Radha Burnier, and reaches back to the nineteen fifties, when a young Dalai Lama came visiting. Best heard standing among the pillar-like roots, close enough to touch one.
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