Yab-Yum
Sign in to savethumb|right|Heruka in Yab-Yum form. On display at [[Gangaramaya Temple museum]] thumb|Tibetan book cover depicting Prajñāpāramitā Devi and Mañjuśrī in yab yum, late 13th century
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It sits within the topics Buddhism and sexuality, Buddhist iconography and Tibetan Buddhist art and culture.
Its subject is documented across 21 Wikipedia language editions.
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thumb|right|Heruka in Yab-Yum form. On display at [[Gangaramaya Temple museum]] thumb|Tibetan book cover depicting Prajñāpāramitā Devi and Mañjuśrī in yab yum, late 13th century
Yab-yum (Tibetan: literally, "father-mother") is a common symbol in the Tibetan Buddhist art of India, Bhutan, Nepal, and Tibet. It represents the primordial union of wisdom and compassion, depicted as a male deity in union with his female consort through the similar ideas of interpenetration or "coalescence" (Tibetan: Wylie: ''zung-'jug''; Sanskrit: ), using the concept of Indra's net to illustrate this.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Yab-Yum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.