The White Lotus Society primarily refers to White Lotus, originally a Buddhist sect, later a secret society.
Fictional organizations very loosely based on the historical organization include:
- White Lotus Society, fictional organization in the video game Mortal Kombat
- Order of the White Lotus, fictional organization in the show Avatar: The Last Airbender
- The White Lotus Society, a fictional Triad holding secrets of the far past from the 2008 Anthony Horowitz novel Necropolis
Other meanings:
A modern Buddhist organization in the Tibetan Drikung Kagyu tradition, located in Rochester, NY, now renamed White Lotus Buddhist Center
Famous quotes containing the words white, lotus and/or society:
“I’ve often wondered why she laughed
On thinking why I wondered so;
It seemed such waste that long white hands
Should touch my hands and let them go.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“I passed a little further on and heard a lotus talk:
Who made the world and ruleth it, He hangeth on a stalk,
For I am in His image made, and all this tinkling tide
Is but a sliding drop of rain between His petals wide.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)