Ancient lotus

ANCIENT LOTUS

	How beautiful you are ! I found these lotus flowers at a pond in the Hitachi Local-History Park at Ishioka (Ibaraki),Japan on July 30.
	This lotus might have bloomed 2500 years ago, when Buddha lived.
	Everything in the world arises, changes, and perishes; nothing constant for even a single moment.
	But the dharma (righteousness) continues forever as the lotus blooms every year without fail.
	Ananda accompanied the Buddha for more than twenty years.

"What is an ancient lotus ?" This lotus is a flower of the miracle which flowered by the effort of Dr. Ichirou Ooga as for the seed of lotus found from the peat layer at Kemigawa-cho, Chiba Pref., Japan with the log boat in 1951. Atomic Energy Research Institute in the United States is assuming this was of 3000 years ago by measuring a radioactive carbon though this ancient lotus was presumed to be 2000 years ago by Dr. Ooga from an existence condition in peat layer and the underground temperature and related data. Anyway, it is the one by distinguished services of Dr. Ooga that "Lotus is a symbol of peace." is assumed to be a motto, and his life was put on the research of lotus.
* Gallery4: " Ancient lotus (Black and white painting)""


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