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  • The Yamnaya culture, named for its characteristic burials in rectangular pits (yama is Russian for pit) beneath kurgans or mounds, is found throughout the steppe north of the Caspian and Black seas and west of the Ural River.

    Cudgel Culture 2002

  • “All of us who had been in the organization since the mid-thirties knew the word yama meant mountain.”

    DAY OF DECEIT ROBERT B. STINNETT 2001

  • “All of us who had been in the organization since the mid-thirties knew the word yama meant mountain.”

    DAY OF DECEIT ROBERT B. STINNETT 2001

  • “All of us who had been in the organization since the mid-thirties knew the word yama meant mountain.”

    DAY OF DECEIT ROBERT B. STINNETT 2001

  • “All of us who had been in the organization since the mid-thirties knew the word yama meant mountain.”

    DAY OF DECEIT ROBERT B. STINNETT 2001

  • For example, if you look at the kanji for mountain, it can be pronounced "yama" or "san" depending I'm still not clear on when you use one or the other.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Bardiac 2008

  • For example, if you look at the kanji for mountain, it can be pronounced "yama" or "san" depending I'm still not clear on when you use one or the other.

    More Local Culture Bardiac 2008

  • They are attained according to the Yoga Sûtras by the exercise of saṃyama which is the name given conjointly to the three states of dhâraṇâ, dhyâna and samâdhi when they are applied simultaneously or in immediate succession to one object of thought [672].

    Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Charles Eliot 1896

  • Some translate it as “kan yama kan,” which means something like “once upon a time” or “a long, long time ago.”

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • Through restraint yama such as abstaining from intoxicants and careful attention to one's actions of body, speech and mind, the human being becomes fit to practice meditation.

    Alanna Zabel: Let The Royal Wedding Remind You Of Your Own Royal Path Alanna Zabel 2011

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