The Birth of Buddha, part 1
Flaubie's Inferno: La Commedia Doggia
God sent Buddha to his mom Queen Maya by way of a white elephant.
It was an highly unusual and probably inadvisable form of insemination, so to speak, because it turned out to be difficult to get an elephant to enter the side of a Hindu queen. The concept was great, as it happens. God’s concepts are almost without exception totally awesome. With God, it…
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