In the Ci-poetry world of the early period of Southern Song Dynasty SU Shi's Ci-poetry was turgidly defined, devoutly imitated and widely followed as an orthodox model and as a sutra of that time.
Everyone should have access to the great works of the world, whether heavy (Shakespeare, “Moby-Dick”, pi to 1m places), or light (Peter Pan, Sherlock Holmes, the “Kama Sutra”).
It was inspired by real historical events A Buddhist monk named Xuanzang walked through the harsh desert for more than 10,000 kilometres on his pilgrimage to India to obtain Buddhist sutra.
In the Buddhist sutras, the lotus is frequently used as a metaphor for the true nature of beings, who can rise above their worldly desires and attachments, just like the lotus rises above the mud to bloom.