- Text, Art and Performance in Bon Ritual
- Text, Art and Performance in Bon Ritual: Religious Art
- Religious Art (ephemeral)
- Religious Art (ephemeral): torma (gtor ma)
- Workshop of Triten Norbutse Monastery (Kathmandu, Nepal)
- yidam torma (yi dam gtor ma)
- nang rgyud [ནང་རྒྱུད་], lower level (3)
- rlung lha [རླུང་ལྷ་] 1/5
rlung lha [རླུང་ལྷ་] 1/5
Level: 1/5
Name (transl. [tib.]) [NAME:]: rlung lha [རླུང་ལྷ་]; Namdak: kun sgrol rlung lha
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: triangle-based ogive cylinder (zur gsum [ཟུར་གསུམ་]); 1st retinue: 4 triangle-based ogive cylinder (zur gsum [ཟུར་གསུམ་]); 2nd retinue: 5 triangle-based ogive cylinder (zur gsum [ཟུར་གསུམ་]); 3rd retinue: 10 triangle-based ogive cylinder (zur gsum [ཟུར་གསུམ་]); 4th retinue: 4 triangle-based ogive cylinder (zur gsum [ཟུར་གསུམ་]); in front of center body, and on top of round seat: print of seat-providing animals (gdan 'bul* []) [WHAV:119067] and cloud (sprin 'dab [སྤྲིན་འདབ་]); to left and right of print: 2 cloud (sprin 'dab [སྤྲིན་འདབ་]) and 1 pot for food (zan phor [ཟན་ཕོར་]); to left, behind and right: 8 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་]), 3 flower (me tog [མེ་ཏོག་]), triangle butter ornament (zur gsum dkar rgyan [ཟུར་གསུམ་དཀར་རྒྱན་]) with fire. [UN]
Dimensions (HxD) [MEASUREMENTS]: 34.4 cm x 18.0 cm [intermediate dimension: h2=29.8; 4x=21.9; 5x=18.3; 10x=14.0; 4x12.5]
Material [MATERIAL]: flour/butter
Workshop [ARTIST]: Workshop of Triten Norbutse Monastery
Artist (body): #11
Artist (butter): #6
Manuscript reference: ???
Manuscript (tib.):
Manuscript (transl.):
Manuscript (engl.):
Body 360°: yes
Butter 360°: yes
Production fotos (body): yes
Production fotos (butter): yes (UN15 1011,.. 199, 209, 244, 248, 268, 294, 296, 297, 332, 350, 351)
Icon.-Reference: [Tenzin Namdak, Yasuhiko Nagano and Musashi Tachikawa, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka 2000: Mandala 16]
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: 38:41-1:02:37; Sanyo002: 00:00-13:34; Sanyo003: 00:00-9:44
[Nebesky p.469]
