gtso mchog [གཙོ་མཆོག་] 1/11

Icon.-Reference:

http://www.himalayanart.org/search/set.cfm?setID=637

http://whav.aussereurop.univie.ac.at/whav/media/130221/

Level: 1/11

Name (transl. [tib.]) [NAME:]: gtso mchog [གཙོ་མཆོག་]

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 (1x) and right (1x) head (mgo [མགོ་]); 1st retinue: 8 triangle-based ogive cylinder (zur gsum [ཟུར་གསུམ་]); in front: print of seat-providing animals (gdan 'bul* []) [WHAV:119134]; in front of round seat: cloud (sprin 'dab [སྤྲིན་འདབ་]); to left and right: pot for food (zan phor [ཟན་ཕོར་]); to left (1x) and behind (1x): 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་]) and flower (me tog [མེ་ཏོག་]), half-circular butter ornament (zla gam dkar rgyan [ཟླ་གམ་དཀར་རྒྱན་]) with fire, flower (me tog [མེ་ཏོག་]), triangle butter ornament (zur gsum dkar rgyan [ཟུར་གསུམ་དཀར་རྒྱན་]) with fire. [UN]

Dimensions (HxD) [MEASUREMENTS]: 35.6 cm x 16.0 cm [intermediate dimension: h2=28.2; tr=18.8]

Material [MATERIAL]: flour/butter

Workshop [ARTIST]: Workshop of Triten Norbutse Monastery

Artist (body): #10

Artist (butter): #7

Manuscript reference: page 148, row 2-3; http://whav.aussereurop.univie.ac.at/ic/6367/

Manuscript (tib.): ཁྲོ་བོ་གཏོས་མཆོག་ལ་ / ཟུར་གསུམ་དབུ་གསུམ་ལ་གཏོར་ཕྲན་བརྒྱད་ཀྱིས་བསྐོར་ / གདན་འབུལ་གཅན་ལྔ་དང་སྤྲིན་འདབས་ཀུན་ལ་འདྲེས་ /

Manuscript (transl.): khro bo gtos mchog la / zur gsum dbu gsum la gtor phran brgyad kyis bskor / gdan 'bul gcan lnga dang sprin 'dabs kun la 'dres /

Manuscript (engl.): For Khro bo gTso mchog [mkha' 'gying]: a triangular figure, with three heads, surrounded by eight small tormas. The seats of all these (?) should consist of five animals with cloud marks. [CR]

Body 360°: yes

Butter 360°: no

Production fotos (body): yes

Production fotos (butter): yes (3rd day: UN15 1011,.. 296, 348; 4th day: UN15 1014,.. 39, 184, 209, 210, 258, 259)

Icon.-Reference: http://www.himalayanart.org/search/set.cfm?setID=637

Location [PROVENANCE]: Kathmandu

Date (body): 3rd day/15.01.2015

Date (butter): 3rd & 4th day/15. & 16.01.2015

Date (destruction): 19.01.2015

Notes: Video 3rd day; Sanyo002: 12:20-13:34; Sanyo003: 00:00-27:35

View details ...

Images