Meditation and yoga posture with legs crossed and each foot placed on the opposite thigh. Also called 結跏趺坐 (けっかふざ).
See also: 結跏趺坐
I sat in the lotus position and meditated during yoga class.
The Buddhist statue is placed on a lotus pedestal.
A more formal Buddhist term for the full lotus meditation posture, synonymous with 蓮華座 in sense 1.
Half-lotus posture where only one foot is placed on the opposite thigh, contrasted with the full lotus of 蓮華座.
Standard kanji spelling for both the meditation posture and the Buddhist pedestal.
Variant using 坐 (sit) instead of 座 (seat); sometimes seen in meditation contexts.
From 蓮華 (れんげ, 'lotus flower') + 座 (ざ, 'seat'). The lotus is a symbol of purity and enlightenment in Buddhism, and the posture or pedestal resembles the flower.