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John Clarke, the gallery's principal curator, says that Avalokiteshvara is sometimes depicted holding a blooming lotus - a symbol of spiritual purity. "It comes up from the mud, flowers, and remains untouched by the dirt that surrounded it," he says. You could say the same thing for the wonderful richness of Buddhist art. See www.vam.ac.uk for more...
...beach huts serving up candy-colored cocktails and blasting American pop. For about $10 a day the young and hedonistic can float down the river, booze in hand, then stop by the pub for pizza or pancakes. The town, a recent returnee says, "is like the land of the lotus eaters, and you are Odysseus in an inner tube." (See TIME.com/travel for city guides, stories and advice...
Visitors to London's British Museum this summer may feel they've stepped into some sort of parallel world. Mango and banyan trees are growing in front of the building's imposing gray columns, while lotus flowers bob in a pond under drizzling London rain. The foreign flora - provided by the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew - makes up the "India Landscape," part of the British Museum's "Indian Summer," a five-month celebration of Indian culture. The exhibition's centerpiece is "Garden and Cosmos," a collection of 54 bold 17th and 19th century paintings from the courts of Jodhpur...
...been booked solid, with some customers reserving three months early. Served on knee-high tables amid found-wood sculptures, the lunches and dinners are dazzling, multicourse medleys of organic vegetables and whimsical tidbits - delicate molds of peanut tofu alternating with abalone on mashed potato; cups of herring, pumpkin and lotus root; baskets of raw corn, edible flowers and salmon eggs; slow-boiled medicinal soups; and passion-fruit compotes. These dishes are punctuated with palate-refreshing shots of homemade fruit vinegars. The price is modest (set meals start at just $33), presentation is painterly, combinations daring and ingredients haute rustic. Chef...
...secret service gadget master known simply as Q tells James Bond in 1989's License to Kill, "you'd have been dead long ago." As the fatherly boffin responsible for arming and protecting the British spy since the early 1960s, Q has tinkered with super cars (Bond's amphibious Lotus in The Spy Who Loved Me which came with torpedoes and mines), invented cunning weapons (a key chain in The Living Daylights that used gas to disorientate the enemy, followed by an explosive charge) and regularly came up with ingenious tools (a fake fingerprint in Diamonds Are Forever, a glass...