The text of the Lotus Sutra refers to the Four Noble Truths as the first teaching of the Buddha, but introduces, in the third chapter titled Similes and Parables, what it calls " the most wonderful and unsurpassed great Dharma ":

Based on the Lotus Sutra's teaching of what it describes as the " unsurpassed Dharma ", Nichiren Buddhism acknowledges the Four Noble Truths as the first sermon, but not as the final teaching of the Buddha.

Hesitant at first, Gardner first attended an in-door nudist club, the Lotus League in Finchley, North London, where he made several new friends and felt that the nudity cured his ailment.

1-2-3 was originally written by Jonathan Sachs, who had written two spreadsheet programs previously while working at Concentric Data Systems, Inc. To aid its growth, in the UK, and possibly elsewhere, Lotus 1-2-3 was the very first computer software to use television consumer advertising.

Lotus 123 became the first " killer app " for PC compatibles, especially as it was available exclusively on that platform and no other computers.

It was serialised from 1921 to 1928 and was adapted into the first wuxia film, The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple ( 1928 ).

Other Japanese names for Mount Fuji, which have become obsolete or poetic, include Fuji-no-Yama ( ふじの山, the Mountain of Fuji ), Fuji-no-Takane ( ふじの高嶺, the High Peak of Fuji ), Fuyō-hō ( 芙蓉峰, the Lotus Peak ), and Fugaku ( 富岳 or 富嶽, the first character of 富士, Fuji, and 岳, mountain ).

Shortly after, Ford of Britain first hired Lotus to create a high-performance version of their Cortina family car, then in 1968 launched the Escort Twin Cam, one of the most successful rally cars of its era.

Dharmaraksa came to the Chinese capital of Luoyang in 266 CE, where he made the first known translations of the Lotus Sutra and the Dasabhumika Sutra, which were to become some of the classic texts of Chinese Mahayana Buddhism.

The first widely marketed software package to offer digital signature was Lotus Notes 1. 0, released in 1989, which used the RSA algorithm.

Häkkinen driving for Team Lotus | Lotus in his first F1 race, the 1991 United States Grand Prix

Future mods, planned or in progress if in most cases graphic conversion tools work, include first a 1966 and 1971 CanAm mod. Then, a Rallye mod, 1935, 1937, 1941, 1951 and 1955 Grand Prix mods, 1964 World Sportscar Championship mod, a Lotus Cortina mod, a Caterham mod.

In 1983, Lotus ' first year of operations, the company achieved revenues of $ 53, 000, 000 and had a successful public offering.

Lotus ' first product was presentation software for the Apple II known as Lotus Executive Briefing System.

Lotus 1-2-3 shipped 60, 000 copies in the first month, and Lotus was soon one of the largest software companies in the world.

The success of the first film of the series, Johnny Wadd, created an immediate demand for more Johnny Wadd films so Chinn followed up with Flesh of the Lotus ( 1971 ).

In 1954 the first Lotus Cars factory was established behind the Railway Hotel ( now Funky Brownz Bar ) on Tottenham Lane.

Lotus is most commonly known for the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet application, the first feature-heavy, user-friendly, reliable and WYSIWYG-enabled product to become widely available in the early days of the IBM PC, when there was no graphical user interface.

Lotus ' first product was presentation software for the Apple II known as Lotus Executive Briefing System.

or ( 3 ) alternately accelerate and decelerate, thus keeping the first driver guessing as to his intentions, thereby making a fascinating sport of the whole affair.

The driver will pick up more passengers as long as seats are available, and will transport them to their destination based on first come first served rules.

When pitcher Roger Clemens arrived in Boston for the first time in 1984, he took a taxi from Logan Airport and was sure the driver had misunderstood his directions when he announced their arrival at the park.

The first version of Microsoft Windows included a simple graphics painting program called Windows Paint ; Windows Write, a simple word processor ; an appointment " calendar "; a " cardfiler "; a " notepad "; a " clock "; a " control panel "; a " computer terminal "; " Clipboard "; and RAM driver.

One potential reason for this is that locals are permitted to start driving at the age of sixteen, when they are limited to 50mph for two years ( indeed all drivers are limited to 50mph in the first two years after passing their driving test ) and some are not used to having to make progress in the same way that drivers using a larger road network like in the UK are ( even an awful driver can get from anywhere in the island to anywhere else in ninety minutes ).

The following year he took part in his first race as a driver.

Gurney took the lead driver role, and the team's first world championship win, while Brabham gave up his car to several other drivers towards the end of the season.

Brabham was the first post-war racing driver to be knighted when he received the honour in 1978 for services to motorsport.

* Atomic John: A truck driver uncovers secrets about the first nuclear bombs.

The band soon met their first manager, Allan Coffman, " the thirty-eight-year-old brother-in-law of Mick ’ s driver friend Stick ".

* 1899 – The first traffic ticket in the US: New York City taxi driver Jacob German was arrested for speeding while driving 12 miles per hour on Lexington Street.

The first synthesizer to run directly on a host computer's CPU was Reality, by Dave Smith's Seer Systems, which achieved a low latency through tight driver integration, and therefore could run only on Creative Labs soundcards.

Fayed's son, Dodi, from his first marriage to Samira Khashoggi, died in a car crash in the Pont de l ' Alma tunnel in Paris along with Diana, Princess of Wales and driver Henri Paul on 31 August 1997.

Traveling 4, 176 miles ( 6, 720 km ) from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Vancouver, British Columbia, in a 1912 REO special touring car, mechanic / driver Fonce V. ( Jack ) Haney and journalist Thomas W. Wilby made the first trip by automobile across Canada ( including one short jaunt into northeastern Washington State when the Canadian roads were virtually impassable.

In 2008, Ian Thompson Jr. became the first driver from Northern Ireland to win the Brisca F2 Stock Car World title since 1972 when he took the honours at Bristol in 2008.

Although Earnhardt was not the first NASCAR driver to die in a wreck, he was arguably more famous than many other drivers that have died.

Windows 2000 is also the first Windows version to support hibernation at the operating system level ( OS-controlled ACPI S4 sleep state ) unlike Windows 98 which required special drivers from the hardware manufacturer or driver developer.

The first stage of the Intifada began following an incident at the Erez checkpoint where four Palestinian residents of the Jabalya refugee camp were killed in a traffic accident involving an Israeli driver.

* May 29 – Indianapolis 500: A. J. Foyt becomes the first driver to win the race four times.

* Arvid Noe, Norwegian sailor and truck driver, probably the first European to die of AIDS-related illness ( b. 1946 )

* February 25 – In an accident at Grove Hill, Harrow, London, England, Edwin Sewell becomes the world's first driver of a petrol-driven vehicle to be killed ; his passenger, Maj. James Richer, dies of injuries three days later .< ref >

For the team's first season, Prost kept one of Ligier's 1996 drivers, Olivier Panis, who had won the Monaco Grand Prix the previous year ; Japanese driver Shinji Nakano was signed to partner Panis.

Prost was the first such driver to take on this role, at the 2010 Bahrain Grand Prix.

Although Nuvolari started 1938 as an Alfa Romeo driver, a split fuel tank in the first race of the season at Pau was enough for him to walk out on the team, critical of the poor workmanship that was exhibited.