Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c5.s2.t3.2

v1.c5.s2.t3.2

The *Sutra on Cause and Effect* wrote that Queen Maya went to Lumbini Garden on February 8, saw an Asoka flower and raised her right hand to pick it but her baby (the prince Siddhartha, the future Gautama Buddha) was born from her right flank. Many sutras recorded that Queen Maya, the mother of the Buddha Sakyamuni, who had returned to her family to give birth according to the convention of the time, passed Lumbini Garden and gave birth to Prince Siddhartha under the Asoka tree. *Juan* 1 of the *Sutra on Causes and Effects of the Past and Present*, translated by the Indian Tripitaka Gunabhadra in the Song Dynasty, described the tree specifically,