Chapter 26 of the Lotus Sutra includes a dialogue between the Buddha and a group of Rakshasa daughters, who swear to uphold and protect the Lotus Sutra.

Lotus released Lotus 1-2-3 on January 26, 1983.

Lotus 26, 1965

* Lotus 36 ( 1965 – 1968 ): Fixed Head Coupe version of the original Elan, so called perhaps to distinguish it from the Type 26 Elan which could be fitted with a removable hard top )

In 1960, at the age of 26, Surtees switched from motorcycles to cars full time, making his Formula 1 debut racing for Lotus in the Monaco Grand Prix in Monte Carlo.

The 1M was featured on Top Gear on 26 June 2011 and recorded a time of 1: 25. 0 round the Top Gear test track ( the fastest M series BMW so far ) and also beat the Porsche Cayman R and Lotus Evora S in a drag race.

Elio de Angelis ( 26 March 1958 – 15 May 1986 ) was an Italian racing driver who participated in Formula One between and, racing for the Shadow, Lotus and Brabham teams.

Larrousse's withdrawal, in addition to the collapse of the Lotus team after the end of the 1994 season, dropped the number of participating cars to 26, guaranteeing all the entrants of a race start, without the threat of failing to qualify, for the first time since the 1994 Canadian Grand Prix.

* Padma Shri ( the Lotus ), awarded by the President of India on January 26, 1964

The Brabham Racing Organisation ( BRO ) started the year fielding customer Lotus chassis, in which Brabham took two points finishes, before the turquoise-liveried Brabham BT3 car made its debut at the 1962 German Grand Prix.

* Lotus 19 ( 1960 – 1962 ): Mid-engined sports racer —" Monte Carlo "

* Lotus 22 ( 1962 – 1965 ): Formula Junior / F3

* Lotus 23 ( 1962 – 1966 ): Small displacement mid-engined sports racer

* Lotus 24 ( 1962 ): Formula One

* Lotus 25 ( 1962 – 1964 ): Formula One World Champion

* Lotus Elite: Describes two cars, one an ultra-light two-seater coupé produced from 1957 to 1962, one an angular 3-door hatch with a back bone chassis produced from 1974 to 1982.

Under his direction, Team Lotus won seven Formula One Constructors ' titles, six Drivers ' Championships, and the Indianapolis 500 in the United States, between 1962 and 1978.

His next major innovation was the introduction of monocoque chassis construction to automobile racing, with the revolutionary 1962 Lotus 25 Formula One car.

When American Formula One driver Dan Gurney first saw the Lotus 25 at the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort, he was so struck by the advanced design that he invited Chapman to the 1962 Indianapolis 500, where Gurney made his Indy début at the wheel of a space-frame rear engined car designed by John Crosthwaite ( who had previously worked for Chapman ) and built by American hot-rodder Mickey Thompson.

In 1962, Moss was badly injured in a crash at Goodwood in a Lotus in the Glover Trophy.

Lotus needed a compact engine for the new for 1962 Lotus Elan, and Chapman adopted the Kent block.

* 1962 – 1974 Lotus Elan

This was the case in the initial 1962 Daytona Continental ( then 3 hours ), in which Dan Gurney's Lotus had established a lengthy lead when the engine failed with just minutes remaining.

* Robinshaw, Paul & Ross, Christopher ( 1989 ), The Original 1962 – 1973 Lotus Elan ( Essential Data and Guidance for Owners, Restorers and Competitors ); additional notes by Ron Hickman.

The engine's first appearance was in 1962 at the Nürburgring in a Lotus 23 driven by Jim Clark.

Since Hayes had joined Ford in 1962 the pair had already collaborated in the production of the successful Lotus Cortina, introduced in 1963.

It was a race of milestones: Innes Ireland's only career win, the first win for Team Lotus, and the first American Grand Prix to turn a profit, ensuring its return in 1962.

New Lotus star Jim Clark of Scotland took his third victory of the season, and the third of his career, to keep alive his hopes of catching Graham Hill for the 1962 World Driver's Championship with one race remaining.

He was unable to reproduce the results he obtained early in his career, his best being a 6th at the 1962 United States Grand Prix at Watkins Glen with the UDT Laystall team, in a Lotus 24.

1962 saw Gregory win the Canadian Grand Prix sports car race at Mosport Park in a Lotus 19-Climax.

These results prompted moves to the privateer Ian Walker Racing FJ team for 1962, driving a Lotus 22, and then to the works Lotus Formula Junior squad in 1963.

The MX-5 was conceived as a small roadster – with light weight and minimal mechanical complexity limited only by legal and safety requirements ; technologically modern, but a philosophically direct descendant of small British and Italian roadsters of the 1960s such as the Triumph Spitfire, MG MGB, Fiat 124 Sport Spider, Alfa Romeo Spider and Lotus Elan.

* 1983 – Flying Lotus, American electronic music producer

* 1975 – Jamie Spaniolo, American rapper ( Twiztid, Dark Lotus, Psychopathic Rydas, and House of Krazees )

Steed's signature cars were vintage 1926 – 1928 Bentley racing or town cars, including Blower Bentleys and Bentley Speed Sixes ( although, uniquely, in " The Thirteenth Hole " he drives a Vauxhall 30 / 98 ), while Peel drove a sporty Lotus Elan convertible which, like her clothes, emphasized her independence and vitality.

* 1796 – 1804: The White Lotus Rebellion against the Manchu Dynasty in China.

* May 19 – Colin Chapman, Founder of Lotus Cars ( d. 1982 )

* End of the White Lotus Rebellion ( 1796 – 1804 ), an uprising against the Qing Dynasty in China.

* 1253 – April 28 – Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, declares his intention to preach the Lotus Sutra and Nam Myoho Renge Kyo as the true Buddhism, essentially founding the branch of Buddhism now known as Nichiren Buddhism.

* April 28 – Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, declares his intent to preach the Lotus Sutra and Nam Myoho Renge Kyo as the true Buddhism, thus founding Nichiren Buddhism.

A breed of powerful hybrids appeared in the 50s and 60s and raced on both sides of the Atlantic, featuring European chassis and large American engines – from the early Allard cars via hybrids such as Lotus 19s fitted with large engines through to the AC Cobra.

It is estimated that Medicago diverged from Glycine ( soybean ) 53 – 55 million years ago and from Lotus ( deervetch ) 49 – 51 million years ago

for this are as follows: Wilfred P. Deac, " Road to the Killing Fields: The Cambodian War of 1970-1975 " ( Texas A & M University Press, 1997 ) pp. 61 – 2 ; Robert Dallek, " Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power ," ( Harper Collins, 2007 ), p. 191 ; Steve Heder " Cambodian Communism and the Vietnamse Model, Volume I: Imitation and Independence, 1930-1975 ," ( White Lotus Press, 2004 ), p. 156.: It seems likely that Lon Nol initially intended to strengthen his position against the North Vietnamese with the ultimate aim of preventing their troops ( and those of the Viet Cong ) from operating within Cambodian borders, and wished to apply pressure on Sihanouk to achieve this.

Lotus 1-2-3 –

IBM purchased the company in 1995 for $ 3. 5 billion, primarily to acquire Lotus Notes and to establish a presence in the increasingly important client – server computing segment, which was rapidly making host-based products like IBM's OfficeVision obsolete.

* Lotus 2-Eleven Weighing just and with the Lotus 2-Eleven can sprint from 0 – 60 in 3. 8 seconds and has a top speed of.

* Lotus Mark II ( 1949 – 1950 ): Ford-powered trials car

* Lotus Mark VI ( 1953 – 1955 ): The first " production " racer — about 100 built

* Lotus Seven ( 1957 – 1970 ): Classic open sports car, a minimalist machine designed to manoeuvre a racing circuit and nothing else.

* Lotus Eleven ( 1956 – 1957 ): sports racer

* Lotus 12 ( 1956 – 1957 ): Formula Two and Formula One racecar

* Lotus 14 ( 1957 – 1963 ): First production street car — the Elite

* Lotus 16 ( 1958 – 1959 ): F1 / F2 car based on the Twelve