YOMADHI POONHI

 This is the name of the particular full moon day when a special type of rice bread is made and served among Newar communities to celeberate the harvesting season. Yomadhi is prepared from the dough made of rice flour to look like a small chaitya. Inside portion of this bread is made empty so a to fill it with liquefied molasses, sesame or other delicacies as per intended taste. The celebration is to express joys and to thank god for the good harvest which is mainly rice in case of Kathmandu valley.  This Poonhi usually falls in the month of November.

YETI

Yeti is the local word for abominable snowman who is supposed to be living in the Himalayas. This mysterious species or man is still a subject for exploration, See Abominable snowman for details.  

YANTRA

 Literal meaning of Yantra is a machine or a mechanical process. For the management of abstract concepts, it also require a mechanism. Such a mechanism is an abstract form of machine. Yantra is a nucleus of everything visible and conceivable which may be grasped and understood. Depicted by a linked diagram of lines through which visualized energies are realized and concentrated, several such Yantras are described in religious texts.  Sri Yantras is one of the most famous one. People consider it as the Great Yantra. Other lesser yantras like Om yantra, Kali yantra are obviously segments out of the all embracing Sri yantra. It is presumed that Yantras may be formed or created out of several permanent forms and substances. The most important substance is the rock crystal. The philosophical and symbolic significance of this material is particularly because of its being clear, colourless and crystal. It can be shaped so as to focus light at its apex enabling it to become a very good emblem for the all inclusive substance of fundamental reality.  Just as the bright and colourless sunlight is inclusive of all the colours of the spectrum, crystal can also serve as the analogy for the inclusive substance.

YAMARAJ

 He is the king of death who keeps all accounts of good and bad deeds of all the creatures. He is responsible for fixing the life span of all and to mark up the date for the end of life in the world. There are innumerable stories woven around him. He has all the departments, associates and systems to keep record of the dharma or the noble deeds and Papa or the sin of all the creatures. He also has the systems, areas and devices of rewarding and penalizing them accordingly.  

YAMANTAKA

 Yamantaka is the composition of two words Yama and Antaka both of which denote the name of the king of death. Hence it is another name of Yama or Antaka.  However, some Buddhist text consider him as the conqueror of the king of Death or Yama. He is projected as the ferocious emanation of Bodhisattwa Manjushree. The form and features of Manjushree when he conquered the demon king of Death or Yama resembles very much like that of Yama himself.  The simplest form of Yamantaka also has a bull’s head, two arms, a crown of skulls and the third eye. In his right hand, he holds a chopper and a skull cup in the left hand. His belt is consisting of human heads. In paintings, he may be seen with sixteen feet, thirty four arms holding all the Tantra symbols and with nine heads.