plant
Lotus
A water plant. Egyptian funerary art, Indian padma, and later Theosophical “lotus” talk are different jobs; they do not share one meaning.
Also known as padma · water lily
Egyptian religion · Nile valley
Lotus appears in Egyptian religion.
Egyptian art and funerary texts use the lotus as a Nile plant of rising and of offering. A valley flower, not padma’s later Indian jobs.
from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972
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Lotus appears in Nile.
The plant is a water plant of the Egyptian valley in that imagery. Geography first.
from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972
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Lotus is associated with Rebirth.
Egyptian funerary imagery can tie the lotus to rising with the sun. That is a Nile grammar of renewal, not a Buddhist lotus-seat.
from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972
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Lotus is associated with Sun.
Egyptian imagery can open the lotus with the sun’s rising. A valley grammar of daybreak.
from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972
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Buddhist traditions
Lotus appears in Buddhist traditions.
Indian padma and later Buddhist lotus imagery are another plant-job: purity and a seat of teaching. Not the Egyptian funerary bloom.
from Burton Watson (translation) · The Lotus Sutra, 1993 (this translation); Sanskrit/Chinese recensions much older
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Lotus is associated with Buddha.
The Lotus Sutra uses the flower as the sūtra’s own image of teaching. A Mahāyāna text, not an Egyptian tomb.
from Burton Watson (translation) · The Lotus Sutra, 1993 (this translation); Sanskrit/Chinese recensions much older
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Lotus appears in Book.
The Lotus Sutra is a book that uses the flower as its name-image. A sūtra, not an Egyptian papyrus.
from Burton Watson (translation) · The Lotus Sutra, 1993 (this translation); Sanskrit/Chinese recensions much older
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Lotus appears in Water.
The plant grows in water. Egyptian and Indian jobs both start from a water plant without sharing a theology.
from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972; Burton Watson (translation) · The Lotus Sutra, 1993 (this translation); Sanskrit/Chinese recensions much older
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sources
- Book of the Dead · Raymond O. Faulkner (translation)
Raymond O. Faulkner, The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead.
- The Lotus Sutra · Burton Watson (translation)
Burton Watson, The Lotus Sutra.