The Yab Yum is an exclusive brothel in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Located in a stately canal house with a green lantern, on the Singel, it mostly caters to foreign visitors of Amsterdam. Brothels are establishments (usually illegal) specifically dedicated to prostitution and may confined to special red-light districts in large cities. ... Amsterdam Location Country The Netherlands Province North Holland Population 739,295 (1 January 2005) Coordinates 4°54′E 52°22′N Website www. ... The Netherlands (Dutch: Nederland) is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Dutch: Koninkrijk der Nederlanden). ...

A second Yab Yum operated for a while in Rotterdam, but has since been closed. For other places named Rotterdam, see Rotterdam (disambiguation) Rotterdam is the second largest city in the Netherlands (after Amsterdam), located in the province of Zuid Holland. ...

As of 2005, the entrance fee is 70 Euros which includes a drink. Sex for one hour costs 300 Euros, but typically requires in addition the purchase of an expensive bottle of champagne. Yab Yum is comparable to the exclusive brothel Bel Ami in Berlin. 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The euro (symbol: €; banking code: EUR) is the currency of twelve European Union member states: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain, collectively known as the Eurozone. ... This article is about the city in Germany. ...

Sanskrit meaning

Yab-Yum literally means "father and mother" in Sanskrit. It is the most widely recognized employment of sexual symbolism in Vajrayana Buddhism. Yab-Yum is a depiction of a man and a woman joined together in the ecstasy of sexual union. The couple represented are a Buddha, or a bodhisattva, and his female consort. They sit face-to-face in a yoga posture, their bodies intertwined. The theme of the Yab-Yum is highly regarded; it appears over and over in sculpture and painting. Properly understood, it is an extremely powerful theme that represents the state of perfect union. Sanskrit ( संस्कृतम्) is a classical language of India and a liturgical language of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. ... A mandala used in Vajrayana Buddhist practices. ... The term Buddha is a word in ancient Indian languages including Pāli and Sanskrit which means one who has awakened. It is derived from the verbal root budh, meaning to awaken or to be enlightened, and to comprehend. It is written in devanagari script as Hindi: and pronounced as...

External links

• Official web site of the brothel