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Our logo, the LOTUS in
Myanmar culture symbolizes purity, and the
promise of man to aim for the highest within
himself. This logo, which will be a focal point
of our Corporate Identity, communicates a
synthesis of bold, modern entrepreneurial
principles, our aim to be the best combined with
Myanmar culture, to be a symbol of achievement
for a new era.
THE GLORY OF THE LOTUS
 The
lotus flower in Myanmar is known as the Padonmar
Kyar (Nelumbium speciosum). It blooms high out of
lake waters on a graceful stem and has long been
symbol of purity and the ability to rise to glory.
The flowers symbolises the best in man that he could
achieve for himself, and to proudly hold his head
high like the blossom on its stem. Fragrant and
delicate-looking yet with strength rishing high, the
lotus has long been a deep-rooted part of religious
beliefs and culture in Myanmar.
In the old Buddhist text Zi-natta Pakar Thani, it is
recorded that on leaving the palace to start life as
an aesthetic, Prince Siddahta was offered a set of
monk's robes by a Brahma, a celestial being of the
highest order, who had found them in a lotus
blossom. Thus on religious days such as the Full
Moon of Thadingyut or Tazaungdaing, both festivals
of light, robes called " Lotus Robes" specially
woven are offered to Buddha images in pagodas.
Ninety years ago a lady of Inle Lake invented a true
lotus robe when she experimented with fibres pulled
from the stem to weave into robes to offer to her
revered Abbot. The traditional of this lotus fibre
weaving still continues to this day on Inle Lake,
and can be found in no other part of the world.
Buddha images are often enshrined on thrones with
lotus motifs, in the same way that the Myanmar kings
had one throne out of the requisite nine carved in
mango wood with lotus designs. The stupas of pagodas
have a band of small and large petals high on the
spire called the lotus petals.
On the family shrine, no other flower has a more
magnificent aura than fresh lotus buds offered to
the Buddha. One of the five attributes of a perfect
woman is that her breath has the fragrance of lotus
"May you be as fresh as a Padonmar lotus," is a wish
often voiced by elders to the younger-generation.
Indeed, what more could one ask? |
