In one of the Dunhuang Caves, you can find yourself surrounded on four sides by the petals of a giant lotus decoration, in which one peaceful Buddha after another sits in front of its own huge lotus petal. Since lotus petals and leaves have unusual shapes, you can always tell when a lotus flower is being depicted no matter if it has been stretched long, pressed flat, or molded into a square.
敦煌、雲岡的一座石洞裡，四面就是一朵巨大蓮花圍成，一片片巨大的花瓣前一個個靜定的佛像；荷花花瓣、葉片形狀特殊，因此造型被拉長、壓平、塑成方形，總可以看出是蓮花紋飾。