What do the elephant murals in Tibetan Buddhist temples represent?

The elephant murals in Tibetan Buddhist temples represent the Buddha.

Buddha's explanation of Muny Buddha is the embodiment of white elephant. There is a sense of elephant worship in Buddhism, and there are often carved elephants around temples. The carved elephant is the incarnation of Buddha to protect temples and monks.

In China's traditional customs, stone statues are often located outside the courtyard as symbols of auspicious patrons, or placed on both sides of Shinto as guardian animals. This is related to Buddhist legends. This theme may come from early Buddhist stories, and the image in stone carving is the symbol of Buddha. The ancients believed that elephants could communicate with gods and were messengers between gods and human beings. In addition to expressing that elephants are auspicious animals, they can pray for the dead and take them to the path of the gods. Stone statues carved around the temple pagoda are still common today, such as the elephant in front of the Tianwang Hall of Nanputuo Temple in Xiamen, with its head held high and its nose held high, and the stone statue in front of Pagoda of Six Harmonies in Hangzhou is the patron saint of the temple pagoda.