Plant species (Nymphaea alba) from the water lily family (Nymphaeaceae) with white flowers, which grows in standing or slowly flowing waters in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.
In Buddhist religion the beautiful whitelotus flower is a symbol of purity.
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After a few moments, she rose and brought a whitelotus to me.
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And most of these little feet are clad with spotless tabi, white as a whitelotus.
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The sacred whitelotus must be your emblem, and Horus, the hawk-headed, merged in Ra, your special deity.
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From before dawn, people gathered along the river bank clutching bunches of whitelotus flowers as a symbol of purity.
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Boshen looked at the boy, too beautiful for the grimy underground, a whitelotus blossom untouched by the surrounding mud.
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If thoughts can purify, Millicent's heart should have been as fair as a whitelotus flower whose roots are in the mud.
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Everywhere a tear met blood, a whitelotus sprang up, one after the other until Alec's chest was covered in them, like a pall.
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Huge fountains were tossing up showers of spray, which fell tinkling onto broad basins wherein the cups of the blue and whitelotus were floating.
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There was a WhiteLotus fortification, a cave, near Blue Crane mountain.
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Government troops caught the leader of the " WhiteLotus" agitation, but he succeeded in escaping.
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In 1775 there came another popular rising, in Honan-thatof the "Society of the WhiteLotus".
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One of the Bibles of the Buddhists is named "The WhiteLotus of the Good Laer."
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"The WhiteLotus," Temeraire said, "who took you prisoner.
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"They flock round him like bees round the whitelotus, leaving the golden jar of honey unheeded."
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Fenollosa speaks of a " WhiteLotus Club," organized by Hui Yuan, A Buddhist priest, and consisteing of "mountain-climbers and thinkers,"-TaoYuan-ming being a member.