Songkran celebrations at Wat Pa Saen Thammararam, featuring a distinctive parade of Buddha images carried on elephants.

A woman interacts with an elephant during a water splashing event in celebration of the upcoming Songkran festival in Ayutthaya, Thailand, April 10, 2026. Songkran, usually held from April 13 to 15 in ...

In 1588 the Chinese artist Ding Yunpeng painted The Cleansing of the Elephant. It depicts two noble retainers carefully brushing a white elephant while the Buddha and his entourage look on. The ...

NEW DELHI (ANI) – After lying buried in the earth for 2,300 years, an ancient sentinel emerges—the stone guardian Elephant, intricately carved from a single rock—now standing under the open skies in ...

Archaeologists in eastern India have unearthed an elephant statue thought to date to the third century B.C., when the region was mainly Buddhist. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

People across Sri Lanka have supported a call to protect elephants, a revered animal in Buddhist culture, after an increasing number of them died in the wild, struck by passenger trains. Media in the ...