Life Of Buddha
            Miraculous Birth


Miraculous Birth
Childhood
Four Encounters
Departure from Palace
Way To Enlightenment
Teachings
 
Death



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Queen Maya was the wife of Suddhodana, virtuous ruler of the minor kingdom of Kapilivastu. One night she had a strange dream: a Bodhisattva descended from heaven, riding on a white elephant, the symbol of divine kingship.

The white elephant touched Maya's side with his trunk, and she became pregnant with the spirit of the Buddha. The Buddha's birth was similarly miraculous. On the eighth day of the fourth lunar month, Queen Maya was walking in the Lumbini Garden in Suddhodana's palace grounds, south of the Himalayas.

As she stood under a sala (ashoka) tree and raised her right arm to pick a blossom, the infant Buddha sprang from her side without causing his mother pain or bloodshed.

He immediately took seven steps towards the north, and announced in a loud voice that this was his final incarnation
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   Ajanta & Ellora
  
Bodhgaya
  
Gaya
  
Kapilavastu
  
Kaushambi
  
Kushinagar 
  
Ladakh
  
Lumbini
  
Nalanda 
  
Nagarjunakonda
  
Nagarjunasagar
  
Orissa & Buddhism
  
Rajgir
  
Sanchi
  
Sankisa
  
Sarnath
  
Sikkim
   Sravasti 
  
Tabo
  
Tawang
  
Vaishali 

 

 
   

 

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