- 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)
- dbal phur [དབལ་ཕུར་] 1/7
dbal phur [དབལ་ཕུར་] 1/7
Icon.-Reference:
? http://whav.aussereurop.univie.ac.at/whav/media/130237/
Level: 1/7
Name (transl. [tib.]) [NAME:]: dbal phur [དབལ་ཕུར་]
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 left (4x), behind (2x), right (4x) head (mgo [མགོ་]); 1st retinue: 10 triangle-based ogive cylinder (zur gsum [ཟུར་གསུམ་]) with 7 replacement (gtor 'dab* []); in front, left and right: cloud (sprin 'dab [སྤྲིན་འདབ་]). [UN]
Description (butter): body: red torma (dmar gtor [དམར་གཏོར་]); butter ornamentation on torma (gtor rgyan [གཏོར་རྒྱན་]), bottom-up: cloud motif (sprin ris [སྤྲིན་རིས་]), triangle butter ornament (zur gsum dkar rgyan [ཟུར་གསུམ་དཀར་རྒྱན་]) in the form of a torma, left and right lotus leaves (pad 'dab [པད་འདབ་]), triangle butter ornament (zur gsum dkar rgyan [ཟུར་གསུམ་དཀར་རྒྱན་]) with fire. [UN]
Dimensions (HxD) [MEASUREMENTS]: 32.5 cm x 16.0 cm [intermediate dimension: h2=28.2; tr=19.8]
Material [MATERIAL]: flour/butter
Workshop [ARTIST]: Workshop of Triten Norbutse Monastery
Artist (body): #2
Artist (butter): #6
Manuscript reference: page 149, row 1-2; http://whav.aussereurop.univie.ac.at/ic/6368/
Manuscript (tib.): དབལ་ཕུར་གཙོ་བོའི་གཏོར་མ་ཟུར་གསུམ་བརྗིད་ལྡན་ར་བཅུ་བཏགས་པ་ལ་འཁོར་ཟུར་གསུམ་བཅུ་ཡིས་བསྐོར་ /
Manuscript (transl.): dbal phur gtso bo'i gtor ma zur gsum brjid ldan ra bcu btags pa la 'khor zur gsum bcu yis bskor /
Manuscript (engl.): The torma of the main dBal phur should be triangular, with nine splendid horns affixed, and surrounded with an entourage of ten triangular effigies. [CR]
Body 360°: yes
Butter 360°: yes
Production fotos (body): yes
Production fotos (butter): yes (UN15 1014,.. 40, 91, 179, 207, 210, 211, 257, 260, 261)
Icon.-Reference: [Tenzin Namdak, Yasuhiko Nagano and Musashi Tachikawa, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka 2000: Mandala 102]
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: 59:38-1:02:37; Sanyo004: 00:00-34:36
