- 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 gsas [དབལ་གསས་] 1/12
dbal gsas [དབལ་གསས་] 1/12
Icon.-Reference:
http://whav.aussereurop.univie.ac.at/whav/media/130222/
or
http://whav.aussereurop.univie.ac.at/whav/media/130238/
or
http://whav.aussereurop.univie.ac.at/whav/media/130239/
Level: 1/12
Name (transl. [tib.]) [NAME:]: dbal gsas [དབལ་གསས་]
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 (3x), behind (2x), right (3x) head (mgo [མགོ་]); 1st retinue: 8 triangle-based ogive cylinder (zur gsum [ཟུར་གསུམ་]); in front to right: print of seat-providing animals (gdan 'bul* []) [WHAV:121222, 2nd print]; in front to left: replacement (gtor 'dab* []); in front: cloud (sprin 'dab [སྤྲིན་འདབ་]); to left and right: pot for food (zan phor [ཟན་ཕོར་]); to left (1x) and right (2x): 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 smaller flowers, 2 flower (me tog [མེ་ཏོག་]), triangle butter ornament (zur gsum dkar rgyan [ཟུར་གསུམ་དཀར་རྒྱན་]) with fire. [UN]
Dimensions (HxD) [MEASUREMENTS]: 34.2 cm x 17.0 cm [intermediate dimension: h2=30.0; tr=18.4]
Material [MATERIAL]: flour/butter
Workshop [ARTIST]: Workshop of Triten Norbutse Monastery
Artist (body): #4
Artist (butter): #9
Manuscript reference: page 148 [also p.166?], row 2; http://whav.aussereurop.univie.ac.at/ic/6367/
Manuscript (tib.): དབལ་གསས་ལ་ཟུར་གསུམ་རྭ་དགུ་ལ་གཏོར་ཕྲན་བརྒྱད་ཀྱིས་བསྐོར་ /
Manuscript (transl.): dbal gsas la zur gsum rwa dgu la gtor phran brgyad kyis bskor /
Manuscript (engl.): For dBal gsas: a triangular figure with nine horns, surrounded by eight small tormas. [CR]
Body 360°: yes
Butter 360°: yes
Production fotos (body): yes
Production fotos (butter): yes (UN15 1014,.. 39, 184, 209, 210, 260)
Icon.-Reference: http://www.himalayanart.org/search/set.cfm?setID=499; [Tenzin Namdak, Yasuhiko Nagano and Musashi Tachikawa, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka 2000: Mandala 67 & 68 & 69 & 100]
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: 30:15-1:02:37; Sanyo004: 00:00-11:03
