Shortly after dawn, more than 200 monks from an order of Tibetan exiles carry carefully bundled scriptures and 108 gold-gilt Buddha statues ... dream of a white elephant entering her body ...

The birthday of the historical Buddha or Shakyamuni ... that an auspicious white elephant entered her womb. A number of texts recount the child’s miraculous birth, detailing how the baby was ...

she dreamt that an auspicious white elephant entered her womb. The Buddha emerged from his mother’s side, as she stood leaning against a tree, in a painless and pure birth. He took seven steps ...

Buddha’s birth and life Siddhartha was born in Lumbini ... the queen dreamed that an auspicious white elephant entered her womb. A number of texts recount the child’s miraculous birth ...

Similarly, Buddhist texts describe how Buddha entered his mother’s womb in the form of a celestial white elephant and was ...

The Buddha's mother dreamed of one before giving birth to him. For a large part ... And, in modern English, a white elephant is simply a useless extravagance! We have got two almost white ...