We characterize the globally generated, ample and very ample line bundles on Bott-Samelson varieties. Using Frobenius splitting we prove a vanishing theorem generalizing the vanishing theorem of Kumar in characteristic zero (Invent. Math. 89 (1987), 395–423).
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