Lotus

Lotus may refer to:

Botany

• Lotus (plant), various botanical taxa
• Lotus (genus)
• Lotus flower, Nelumbo nucifera

Motor cars

• Lotus Cars, a British motor vehicle manufacturer
  • Lotus F1 Team, a British Formula One team that started competing in the 2012 season
  • Team Lotus, a British Formula One racing team that competed between 1954 and 1994
  • Pacific Team Lotus, the successor team that resulted from a merger with Pacific and competed in Formula One in 1995
  • Lotus GP, a French GP2 and GP3 racing team sponsored by Lotus Cars
  • Lotus, a videogame series based on Lotus cars
• Team Lotus (2010–11), a Malaysian Formula One racing team that began racing in 2010 as Lotus Racing and became the Caterham F1 Team at the end of the 2011 season

Music

• Lotus (guitar), an instrument manufacturer
• Lotus (American band), a 2000s instrumental rock band
• Lotus (Hong Kong band), a 1960s pop band
• Lotus (Christina Aguilera album) (2012), by Christina Aguilera
• Lotus (Elisa album) (2003), by Elisa
• Lotus (Santana album) (1974), by Santana
• "Lotus" (Arashi song), by Arashi
• "Lotus", a song from Cage The Elephant's debut album
• "Lotus" (Dir En Grey song), by Dir En Grey
• "Lotus", a song by Minus the Bear on Planet of Ice
• "Lotus" (song), by R.E.M.
• "Lotus", a song by Susumu Hirasawa on the 1995 album Sim City

Religion

• Padma (attribute), a polyvalent religious symbol
• Lotus, one of the Ashtamangala (Eight Auspicious Symbols)
• Lotus Temple, Baha'i House of Worship in Delhi, India
• Lotus Sutra, an influential Mahayana sutra
• Lotus position, a posture used in yoga, meditation & Zen Buddhism

Populated places

• Lotus, California
• Lotus, Florida
• Lotus, Kentucky

Other

• Lotus (board game), a strategy game
• Lotus case, case before the Permanent Court of International Justice arising from the collision between a French steamship named S.S. Lotus and a Turkish steamship.
• Lotus Foods, an organic and heirloom rice company
• Lotus Software, a personal computer software company, best known for Lotus Notes and the 1-2-3 spreadsheet application
• Lotus, a European brand of toilet paper owned by Georgia-Pacific
• S.S.S. Lotus, a sailing vessel
• Lotus (motor vessel), a houseboat yacht
• Law of the unconscious statistician, a statistics theorem used to calculate the expected value of a function
• Tesco Lotus, a hypermarket chain in Thailand and China
• The Blue Lotus, a Tintin book by Hergé

See also

• All pages beginning with "lotus"
• Lote (disambiguation)