Nyama, Nyāma: 4 definitions

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Nyama means something in Buddhism, Pali, Hinduism, Sanskrit, biology. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.

In Buddhism

Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)

Source: Wisdom Library: Tibetan Buddhist Teachers, Deities and other Spiritual beings

Nyama (=Khaan Nyama) in Mongolian is another name for Sūrya—one of the “Twenty-Five Kalkis” (Tibetan: rigs ldan) as well as the “Thirty-two kings of Shambhala”, according to the Tibetan oral recounting and written texts such as the Kalachakra Tantra (kālacakratantra), dealing with the Buddhist conception of the end of the world and time.—The Tibetan mythic land (the kingdom of Shambhala) is a parallel world invisible and inaccessible to common people which is closely related to the teaching about the Wheel of Time (dus 'khor). The seven Dharmarajas and twenty-five Kulikas [e.g., khaan nyama] are the traditional rulers of Shambhala, passing on the reign from father to son.

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Tibetan Buddhism includes schools such as Nyingma, Kadampa, Kagyu and Gelug. Their primary canon of literature is divided in two broad categories: The Kangyur, which consists of Buddha’s words, and the Tengyur, which includes commentaries from various sources. Esotericism and tantra techniques (vajrayāna) are collected indepently.

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Biology (plants and animals)

Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)

Nyama in Burkina Faso is the name of a plant defined with Tapinanthus bangwensis in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Loranthus talbotiorum Sprague (among others).

Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):

· Beskrivelse af Guineeiske planter (1827)
· Flora of Tropical Africa (1910)
· Journal of Ethnopharmacology (1987)
· Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France (1895)
· Enumeratio Stirpium Plerarumque, quae sponte crescunt in agro Vindobonensi (1762)
· Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Nederlandsche Akademie van Wetenschappen. Afdeeling Natuurkunde; Tweede Sectie (1933)

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This sections includes definitions from the five kingdoms of living things: Animals, Plants, Fungi, Protists and Monera. It will include both the official binomial nomenclature (scientific names usually in Latin) as well as regional spellings and variants.

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Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Nyāma (न्याम).—m., certainly = niyāma, q.v.; § 3.106; this is demonstrated by parallelism of phraseology accom- panying the two words: nyāmaḥ Mahāvyutpatti 6502, following niyāmaḥ, but expl. by Tibetan skyon med pa, lack of defect (as if ni plus āma!), and so Chin.; nyāmāvakrānta (compare use of niyāma with ava-kram in [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit] and Pali) Mahāvyutpatti 6503, according to Tibetan entered (zhugs pa) into lack of defect; nyāmā- vakrānti-vihāraḥ Bodhisattvabhūmi 358.2, samyaktva-nyāmāvakrānti- prayogavihāraḥ id. 1; bodhisattva-nyāmam avakramya Gaṇḍavyūha 320.22; °mam avakrāmanty Śatasāhasrikā-prajñāpāramitā 272.8, °mam… avakramitukāmena 67.11; °nyāmāvakrāntas (printed °nyāmava°) Aṣṭasāhasrikā-prajñāpāramitā 331.10; read nyāmāvakrāntau 322.5; for Lefm. nyāyākramaṇatāyai Lalitavistara 31.20 and 34.10, read with Wogihara, Lex. 29 nyāmāvakram° (so most mss. in 34.10, and traces of the same in mss. 31.20). All passages are prose.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Nyāma (न्याम):—m. = ni-yāma, ni-yama, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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