Manas

Manas may refer to:

Cultural anthropology

• Epic of Manas, a Kyrgyz epic poem with 500,000 lines
• The Pali and Sanskrit term for "mind"; see
  • Manas (early Buddhism)
  • Manas-vijnana, one of the eight consciousnesses taught in Yogacara Buddhism

University

• Manas University, Kyrgyz Turkish Manas University, Kyrgyzstan

Toponyms

Geographic locations

• Royal Manas National Park, a national park in Bhutan
• Manas District, a district of Talas Province, Kyrgyzstan
  • Manas International Airport, an international airport near Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan
    • Transit Center at Manas, a United States Air Force base at the airport above
• Manas National Park, a national park in the state of Assam, India
• Manas International Public School, Jehanabad, in India
• Manas, Drôme, a commune in Drôme département in France
• Manas-Bastanous, a commune in the Gers department in southwestern France
• Manas District, Peru, in the Peruvian province of Cajatambo
• Manas County, in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China
• Manas Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which Manas Settlement in Karabudakhkentsky District of the Republic of Dagestan, Russia is incorporated as
• Manas (urban-type settlement), an urban-type settlement in Karabudakhkentsky District of the Republic of Dagestan, Russia

Geologic features

• Manas or Manasi River, a river in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region of China
• Manas Lake, a lake in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region of China
• Manas River, a river in the Indian state of Assam
• Lake Manasarovar, a lake in Tibet

Scientific

• Manas University, Manas University Scientific Journals, Kyrgyzstan
• Harpalus manas, a species of ground beetle
• 3349 Manas, a main-belt asteroid

People

• Achero Mañas (born 1966), Spanish film director
• Edgar Manas (1875–1964), Turkish-Armenian composer, conductor and musicologist
• Fernando Llorente Mañas (born 1990), Spanish footballer
• José Ángel Mañas (born 1971), Spanish writer
• Manas Kumar Mandal, is a scientist and psychologist of Delhi, India
• Manas Mukherjee, Bengali music director
• Manas Das, Indian footballer
• Manas Family, an Ottoman-Armenian family

Other uses

• Manas, a crablike Bionicle
• MANAŞ, MAN AG's truck and bus factory in Turkey
• Manas Air, a defunct airline in Kyrgyzstan
• MANAS Journal, a weekly philosophical journal published in 1948–1988
• Manasa, a Hindu folk goddess of snakes

See also

• Mana (disambiguation)