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In Dharma Bums, Japhy Ryder teaches Ray Smith the Tibetan art of yab-yum—he sits in lotus position while a girl named Princess straddles his lap.
HIGH BEFORE HOMEROOM MAYA SLOAN 2010
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In Dharma Bums, Japhy Ryder teaches Ray Smith the Tibetan art of yab-yum—he sits in lotus position while a girl named Princess straddles his lap.
HIGH BEFORE HOMEROOM MAYA SLOAN 2010
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In Tibetan, the terms for the couple are yab-yum, meaning "father" and "mother."
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The misunderstanding comes from seeing Buddha-figures as couples in union and incorrectly translating the Tibetan words for the couple, yab-yum, as male and female.
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The Tibetan word for the couple, yab-yum, means "father and mother."
Kalachakra, Tantra, and Their Relation with World Peace 2002
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We may note that, as a father and mother in union – the meaning of the Tibetan term yab-yum – Kalachakra and Vishvamata symbolize the union of method and wisdom necessary for giving birth to Buddhahood.
Taking the Kalachakra Initiation ��� 9 The Preparation Ceremony 1997
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Masters now rises to the occasion for yet a fourth chapter in which a "government - issue Egg" becomes the setting for a "yab-yum ceremony of searing obscenity."
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His slim hips seemed to fade away from there, which made no sense at all atop his tree-trunk legs, yet there he was: cool and hot, chiseled and cuddly, firm and gentle, sweet and severe, perfectly proportioned like a 1940s cartoon of a he-man: he was my yab-yum, my juicy Lucy, my holy heavenly hunk-o’-honey, and I was the man he loved.
The Best American Erotica 2006 Edited by Susie Bright 2006
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His slim hips seemed to fade away from there, which made no sense at all atop his tree-trunk legs, yet there he was: cool and hot, chiseled and cuddly, firm and gentle, sweet and severe, perfectly proportioned like a 1940s cartoon of a he-man: he was my yab-yum, my juicy Lucy, my holy heavenly hunk-o’-honey, and I was the man he loved.
The Best American Erotica 2006 Edited by Susie Bright 2006
mechanolatry commented on the word yab-yum
Tibetan -- father-mother
1. A common symbol in the Buddhist art representing the male deity in sexual union with his female consort.
2. Tantric yoga position where the male is sitting in lotus position while his consort is sitting in his lap, legs wrapped around his waist.
January 29, 2009