Do you know how lotus, favourite flower from His Hiliness Dalai Lama looks?

Lotus is the national flower of India. It is a flower that floats in water. Generally it is Light Pink, dark pink or White in coour and it has lot of patels which are fragrant, a broad, rounded, perforated seedpod, and fleshy rhizomes. The roots of this plant are planted in the soil in any river or mostly in ponds, while the leave float above the water surface. The flowers usually grow on big stems, which are several centimetres above the water. The lotus plant usually grows upto 150 cm in height and upto three meters horizontally. The leaf of the plant that floats on water is as big as 60 cm in diameter and the flowers grow upto 20 cm in diameter. The scientific name for lotus is Nelumbo nucifera.





Any of several different plants whose flowers have been given symbolic meaning by many cultures. The lotus of the Greeks is Ziziphus lotus (family Rhamnaceae), a shrub native to southern Europe; wine made from its fruit was thought to produce contentment and forgetfulness. The Egyptian lotus is a white water lily (Nymphaea lotus). The sacred lotus of the Hindus is an aquatic plant (Nelumbo nucifera) with white or delicate pink flowers; the lotus of eastern North America is Nelumbo pentapetala, a similar plant with yellow blossoms.





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Do you know how lotus, favourite flower from His Hiliness Dalai Lama looks?
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Reply:Well generally it is pink and white in colour that always grows in the water and most of the buddist deities are seated on this flower when they are featured in paintings or scluptures.