yab-yum

This article is about the Dutch brothel. For the symbol in Buddhist art, see Yab-Yum. Yab Yum is one of the best-known and most exclusive brothels in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Located in a canal house on the Singel, it mostly caters to business men and foreign visitors. A second Yab Yum operated for a while in Rotterdam, but has since been closed.
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For the brothel in Amsterdam, see Yab Yum. Yab-yum (Tibetan for "father-mother") is a symbol in the Buddhist art of India, Bhutan, Nepal, and Tibet representing the male deity in sexual union with his female . Often the male deity is sitting in lotus position while his consort is sitting in his lap.The symbolism of union and sexual polarity is a central teaching Tantric Buddhism, especially in Tibet. The union is realised by the practitioner as a mystical experience within one's own body.Yab-yum is generally understood to represent the primordial (or mystical) union of wisdom and compassion. The masculine form is passive, representing the compassion and skillful means (upaya) that have to be developed in order to reach enlightenment. The feminine form is active and represents wisdom (prajna), which is also necessary to enlightenment. United, the figures symbolize the union necessary to overcome the veils of Maya, the false duality of object and subject.
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In Tibeten Buddhism, or Vajrayana Buddhism, this is the symbol of the male and female sexual union--usually a union of a god or a bodhisattva and his consort--which represents the completeness of the cosmos. The male represents action, usually that of compassion, in this finite world, and the female represents wisdom, the unity of the Infinite. The male is seen as passive and the female as active.