zhi ba a gsal [ཞི་བ་ཨ་གསལ་] 1/3

Level: 1/3

Name (transl. [tib.]) [NAME:]: zhi ba a gsal [ཞི་བ་ཨ་གསལ་]

Category [OBJECTTYPE]: torma (gtor ma) :: yidam torma (yi dam gtor ma) :: nang rgyud [ནང་རྒྱུད་] :: lower level

Description (body): round seat (gdan zlum po [གདན་ཟླུམ་པོ་]); center body: circular-based ogive cylinder (zlum po [ཟླུམ་པོ་]); 1st retinue: 4 circular-based ogive cylinder (zlum po [ཟླུམ་པོ་]); in front of center body, and on top of round seat: print of seat-providing animals (gdan 'bul* []) [WHAV:119134]; to left and right of print: cloud (sprin 'dab [སྤྲིན་འདབ་]); in front (2x), left (2x), right (2x) and behind (2x), in the corners between center body and retinue: replacement (gtor 'dab* []). [UN]

Description (butter): body: red torma (dmar gtor [དམར་གཏོར་]); butter ornamentation on torma (gtor rgyan [གཏོར་རྒྱན་]), bottom-up: lotus leaves (pad 'dab [པད་འདབ་]), 5 flower (me tog [མེ་ཏོག་]). [UN]

Dimensions (HxD) [MEASUREMENTS]: 33.4 cm x 16.0 cm [intermediate dimension: h2=28.1; F2=20.4]

Material [MATERIAL]: flour/butter

Workshop [ARTIST]: Workshop of Triten Norbutse Monastery

Artist (body): #1

Artist (butter): #9

Manuscript reference: page 148, row 1; http://whav.aussereurop.univie.ac.at/ic/6367/

Manuscript (tib.): ཞི་བ་ཨ་གསལ་ / ཟླུམ་པོ་གཅིག་ལ་ཟླུམ་པོ་བཞི་ཡིས་བསྐོར་ /

Manuscript (transl.): zhi ba a gsal la / zlum po gcig la zlum po bzhi yis bskor /

Manuscript (engl.): Zhi ba a gsal: one cylindrical figure surrounded by four cylindrical figures. [CR]

Body 360°: yes

Butter 360°: yes

Production fotos (body): yes

Production fotos (butter): yes (UN15 1011,.. 140, 152, 159, 174, 180, 198, 245, 268)

Icon.-Reference: [Tenzin Namdak, Yasuhiko Nagano and Musashi Tachikawa, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka 2000: Mandala 47]

Location [PROVENANCE]: Kathmandu

Date (body): 3rd day/15.01.2015

Date (butter): 3rd day/15.01.2015

Date (destruction): 19.01.2015

Notes: Video 3rd day; Sanyo001: 19:11-1:02:37; Sanyo002: 00:00-02:28

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