Page 9 - HP2A 013 The legend of Gautama Buddha

and grew up in Kapilavastu. The

exact location of this place is still

unknown, but there are many

speculations that it may have been

somewhere in India or Nepal.

Gautama was born as the son of

the elected chief of the Shakya

clan. When Gautama’s mother first

conceived Gautama, she had a dream

where a white elephant with six

white tusks entered her right side,

and ten months later Gautama was

born. In the Theravada Countries

the day of Buddha’s birth is widely