Look for Chris Bohjalian's new novel, The Lioness!
Yip Mann, an elderly spice farmer, should have known better than to purchase a fifteen-year-old cherry-girl as his concubine, especially one beautiful enough to be seen as Ch'ien Gum - comparable to a thousand pieces of gold.
Some, like Nose, plunge into dissipation. Others, like Top Man, become imitation Yellows. And some, like White Lotus, rebel. In this mesmerizing book John Hersey creates an alternate history that casts a harsh radiance on our own.
Based in USA, Parag is the founder and part owner of Vistarus (www.vistarus.com). A relentless passion for history, combined with a master's degree in engineering and an MBA in strategy, makes Parag the chief architect of the book.
... white lotus , Nymphaea alba ; Padma , especially the Nelumbium speciosum ; Utpala , the Nymphæa cærulea , the blue lotus ; Kumuda , Nymphæa esculenta , white lotus , or N. rubra , red ... v..│The Lotus - womb in which the believers of ...
... red lotus , s . A , 12 * . Autumn mountains , illustration to a poem , i , s . A , 13 * . TWO white antelopes in mountains , i indistinct . A , 14 * . White plum , s , colophon dated 1976 . A , 15 * . Red lotus with ink leaves , s . A ...
... white lotus owers” ( LSOC , 296). When we look at the corresponding terms in the Sanskrit text of the sutra, we nd that “red lotus owers” is a translation of padma. is is a white waterlily, but it seems there are pink varieties, too. “ ...
... Red, White, and Yellow Sects (three parts of a single religious society) in Southern Kiangsi during the T'ung-chih period. He sees the Yellow Sect (similar to the Green Lotus of the Lo Sect) and the Red Lotus (directly linked to the Red ...
... Lotus , the eighth Red Lotus , the ninth White Lotus , the tenth Ruddy Lotus . Why is called Thick Clouds Hell ? Because the sinners of this hell have , by nature , bodies shaped like thick clouds . This is the reason for its name . Why ...
... V. 8. - Whenever Agastya rises and the water in- creases in the rivers and valleys during his time , you see the rivers offering to the moon all that is on the surface of their water , the various kinds of white and red lotus and the ...