lha rgod [ལྷ་རྒོད་] 1/6

Level: 1/6

Name (transl. [tib.]) [NAME:]: lha rgod [ལྷ་རྒོད་]

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་]) with 3 head (mgo [མགོ་]); 1st retinue: 8 triangle-based ogive cylinder (zur gsum [ཟུར་གསུམ་]); in front center body, and on top of round seat: print of seat-providing animals (gdan 'bul* []) [WHAV:121222] and cloud (sprin 'dab [སྤྲིན་འདབ་]); to left and right: pot for food (zan phor [ཟན་ཕོར་]); to left, behind and right: 4 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་]), half-circular butter ornament (zla gam dkar rgyan [ཟླ་གམ་དཀར་རྒྱན་]) with a flower (me tog [མེ་ཏོག་]) and tree leaves (shing lo [ཤིང་ལོ་]), circular butter ornament (zlum po dkar rgyan [ཟླུམ་པོ་དཀར་རྒྱན་]), 3 triangle butter ornament (zur gsum dkar rgyan [ཟུར་གསུམ་དཀར་རྒྱན་]) with fire. [UN]

Dimensions (HxD) [MEASUREMENTS]: 33.1 cm x 16.0 cm [intermediate dimension: h2=28.4; tr=17.8]

Material [MATERIAL]: flour/butter

Workshop [ARTIST]: Workshop of Triten Norbutse Monastery

Artist (body): #10

Artist (butter): #12

Manuscript reference: page ?, row ?;

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Body 360°: yes

Butter 360°: yes

Production fotos (body): yes

Production fotos (butter): yes (UN15 1014,.. 40, 211, 212, 257, 261, 371, 372, 387, 390, 472, 476, 477)

Icon.-Reference: http://www.himalayanart.org/search/set.cfm?setID=641; [Tenzin Namdak, Yasuhiko Nagano and Musashi Tachikawa, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka 2000: Mandala 51 & 71]

Location [PROVENANCE]: Kathmandu

Date (body): 3rd day/15.01.2015

Date (butter): 4th day/16.01.2015

Date (destruction): 19.01.2015

Notes: Video 3rd day; Sanyo003: 27:46-1:02:37; Sanyo004: 00:00-1:34

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