New section on the ancient importation of this tree to Africa and South Asia Although it is fairly well known that the Pipal tree was taken from places inside of India and transported to places like Sri Lanka there are at least a handful of 19th century authors that describe this tree as being found and revered as sacred in parts of ancient Africa that have housed Buddhist missionaries A modern author tries to cover the topic more fully in the book The Inherent Scholarly Prejudices on the Relationship between Judaism Buddhism and Christianity or Jesus s Godama Sources and a Truer History of the Post Axial Age Egyptian Grecian and Persian Empires