Yama (disambiguation)
Yama is the lord of death in Hindu and Buddhist mythology.
- Yama (Hinduism), in the context of Vedic mythology and Hinduism
- Yama (East Asia), in the context of East Asian mythology and Buddhism
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Yama may also refer to:
Places
- Yama, Burkina Faso, a village in central Burkina Faso
- Yama, Missouri, a community in the United States
- Yama District, Fukushima, an administrative district in Japan
- Yama, a former name of the town Kingisepp in Russia
- The Pit (memorial) (in Russian: Yama), a Holocaust memorial at the location of the Minsk Ghetto in present-day Belarus
People with the surname
- Mihoko Yama (山 三保子, born 1949), Japanese high jumper
Other uses
- Yāma, one of the six heavenly worlds in Buddhism
- Yamas, codes of conduct described in various Hindu scriptures
- Yama (album), a 1979 album by Art Farmer with Joe Henderson
- Yamá, a trade language used by some Native American tribes around the Gulf of Mexico
- Gul Ahmmad Yama, a candidate in Afghanistan's 2009 Presidential elections
- Yama, the Japanese word for mountain
- Yama security module, a security module for the Linux kernel
- Yamamotoyama Ryūta, also known simple as Yama, heaviest Japanese person and sumo wrestler
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