Its significance varies across traditions: in Hinduism, it embodies the absence of color and light, while for the ancient Romans, both black and white lotus flowers symbolized the cycle of life ...

The lotus flower holds high spiritual significance across Hinduism, Buddhism and different Asian cultures alike. In China, for example, the lotus symbolizes associated with purity, grace and beauty.

roses and lotus flowers. Devotees offer flowers and flower garlands to Hindu deities such as Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth; Ganesha, the remover of obstacles; or the warrior goddess Durga.

Because of these attributions, the lotus is often seen alongside divine figures in some cultures. For the Egyptians, the flower represents the universe. In Hindu culture, it is said that gods and ...

The lotus flower, a great seductress who lives but three ... The flower in full bloom is the insignia of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu supremacist Bharatiya Janata Party, or B.J.P ...