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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.”
“In Tibetan, the terms for the couple are yab-yum, meaning "father" and "mother.”
“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.”
“The Tibetan word for the couple, yab-yum, means "father and mother.”
“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.”
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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.”
“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.”
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mechanolatry 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. Jan 28, 2009