White lotus

White lotus can refer to:

Plants

• White waterlily, an aquatic flowering plant
  • Nymphaea alba, of Europe and North Africa
  • Nymphaea lotus, of East Africa and Southeast Asia
  • Nymphaea nouchali, of South Asia, Southeast Asia and Australia
  • Nymphaea pubescens, of South Asia and Southeast Asia

Buddhist sect

• White Lotus, a Buddhist sect which became an influential secret society in imperial China
  • Red Turban Rebellion, a 1351–1368 rebellion that overthrew the Yuan dynasty
  • White Lotus Rebellion, a 1794–1804 rebellion during the Qing dynasty

Fictional organisations loosely based on the historical organisation

• White Lotus Society, a fictional organisation in the video game Mortal Kombat.
• Order of the White Lotus, a fictional organisation in the animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender
• White Lotus Society, a fictional triad holding secrets of the far past in the 2008 fantasy novel Necropolis by Anthony Horowitz.

Other uses

• White Lotus (album), a 2011 album by the American post-hardcore band Eyes Set to Kill
• Ganglamedo, also translated as White lotus, a 2006 Chinese musical film
• White Lotus editor, a publisher based in Thailand
• White Lotus, American rapper and member The Lost Children of Babylon
• White Lotus (novel), a 1965 novel by John Hersey