lotus-flower

• “Sandal-wood or Tagara, a lotus-flower, or a Vassiki, among these sorts of perfumes, the perfume of virtue is unsurpassed.”

  The Dhammapada

• “Upon the other wall you will see the lotus-flower, which opens at the rising of the sun and closes at its setting; the enigmatic double-headed ducklings and the picture of a gazelle, which is doubtless the representation of the pet which, bound in mummy trappings, was found beside its royal mistress in the tomb.”

  The Hawk of Egypt

• “He stands upon a lotus-flower, and about his feet there lies a pile of pebbles, to which pile each wayfarer adds a fresh pebble.”

  Peeps at Many Lands: Japan

• “He will, while dying, see a golden lotus-flower, like the disk of the sun, appearing before his eyes; in a moment he will be born in the world of highest happiness.”

  Buddhism and Buddhists in China

• “Remember, as I loved that Indian maiden with a passion which death has not chilled, so I loathe my rival with a hatred infinite and all-consuming; for, somehow, I know that demon crushed out the life of my fragile lotus-flower.”

  The Darrow Enigma

• “On men, as thou thy rain-jets on the lotus-flower.”

  Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works

• “If thou be born in the poor man's hovel, yet have wisdom, then wilt thou be like the lotus-flower growing out of the mire.”

  The Essence of Buddhism

• “To pick the water-chestnut and the lotus-flower with a quick, light hand!”

  Fir-Flower Tablets: Poems Translated From the Chinese

• “O God, the gem emerging from the lotus-flower." ...”

  The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition

• “The lotus-flower pedestal was three or four feet above the ground; the Buddha was about six feet high.”

  Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan

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