ma rgyud [མ་རྒྱུད་] 1/13

Level: 1/13

Name (transl. [tib.]) [NAME:]: ma rgyud [མ་རྒྱུད་]

Category [OBJECTTYPE]: torma (gtor ma) :: yidam torma (yi dam gtor ma) :: nang rgyud [ནང་རྒྱུད་] :: lower level

Description (body): rectangular seat ( []); from left to right: square-based ogive cylinder (gru bzhi [གྲུ་བཞི་]), circular-based ogive cylinder (zlum po [ཟླུམ་པོ་]), triangle-based ogive cylinder (zur gsum [ཟུར་གསུམ་]); surrounded by: 29 cliff (looks like chang bu [ཆང་བུ་]) and 69 "boulder(?)" (looks like gtor 'dab* []); in front: print of seat-providing animals (gdan 'bul** []) and 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: lotus leaves (pad 'dab [པད་འདབ་]), mountain cliffs (brag ri [བྲག་རི་]), 3 flowers, 3 circular butter ornament (zlum po dkar rgyan [ཟླུམ་པོ་དཀར་རྒྱན་]) with flower decoration. [UN]

Dimensions (HxWxL) [MEASUREMENTS]: 29.9 cm x 36.0 cm x 17.0 cm [intermediate dimension: sq,c,tr=27.5; cliff=10.0; seat=4.0]

Material [MATERIAL]: flour/butter

Workshop [ARTIST]: Workshop of Triten Norbutse Monastery

Artist (body): #2 (#11, wrong version)

Artist (butter): #12

Manuscript reference: Extratext [WHAV:121205 & 121207]

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Body 360°: yes

Butter 360°: yes

Production fotos (body): yes

Production fotos (butter): yes (UN15 1011,.. 90, 114, 123, 157, 158, 160, 168, 174, 184, 200, 208, 209, 244, 247, 248, 268, 295, 297, 332, 350, 351, 352)

Icon.-Reference: (http://www.himalayanart.org/search/set.cfm?setID=500); [Tenzin Namdak, Yasuhiko Nagano and Musashi Tachikawa, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka 2000: Mandala 85]

Location [PROVENANCE]: Kathmandu

Date (body): 3rd day/15.01.2015 (2nd day, wrong version)

Date (butter): 3rd day/15.01.2015

Date (destruction): 19.01.2015

Notes: Video 3rd day; Sanyo001: 00:00-39:41

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