convinces her family to holiday at the Thai White Lotus in order for her to further explore her interest in Buddhism, and to further her dream to undertake a one-year retreat at the nearby monastery.

“We need to talk about the art history Easter eggs in the season finale of White Lotus,” Amelia Marran-Baden, a recent graduate of the art history masters program at New York’s Columbia ...

This article contains spoilers for Season 3 of The White Lotus. It turns out that a spiritual retreat to a resort in Thailand might not be quite as relaxing as it sounds. The third installment of ...

Landing back into the water on “The White Lotus” can seem like the best and only escape from the tyranny of ego and desire. Coming from a Buddhism-influenced showrunner, it’s a vision of the ...

The White Lotus repudiates the “peak woke” era of the late 2010s, which yielded safe, self-congratulatory, and didactic art, obsessed ... So then Frank took up Buddhism – a religion that ...

Throughout The White Lotus Season 3, Piper seems to be the only Ratliff aware of the family’s privilege. Her interest in Buddhism seems to relate to her rejection of her family’s materialism.

Foster Senior Curator for Traditional Asian Art ... lotus is often understood as a symbol of spiritual purity. The blooming of a lotus is said to mimic the Buddhist eightfold path — it grows from the ...

While the Thai Buddhism depicted in The White Lotus is not completely realistic, there are several authentic ways to engage deeply with Buddhism, ranging from offering donations to short ...

Instead, their Buddhism-seeking sister Piper (Sarah Catherine Hook) seduced fellow White Lotus resort guest Zion (Nicholas Duvernay) in the unaired scene. "The part that was cut, too, is that she ...

“In Thailand, the main symbol of Thai Buddhism is the lotus, and there are three. There’s the Blue Lotus, which is wisdom and intelligence. There’s the Red Lotus, which is love and compassio ...