me lha [མེ་ལྷ་] 2/1

Level: 2/1

Name (transl. [tib.]) [NAME:]: me lha [མེ་ལྷ་]

Category [OBJECTTYPE]: torma (gtor ma) :: yidam torma (yi dam gtor ma) :: phyi rgyud [ཕྱི་རྒྱུད་] :: upper level

Description (body): bottom-up: round seat (gdan zlum po [གདན་ཟླུམ་པོ་]), square seat (gdan gru bzhi [གདན་གྲུ་བཞི་]), semi-circular seat (gdan zla gam [གདན་ཟླ་གམ་]), triangle-based ogive cylinder (zur gsum [ཟུར་གསུམ་]); in front of square seat, and on top of round seat: cloud (sprin 'dab [སྤྲིན་འདབ་]); in front of semi-circular seat, and on top of square seat, to left and right: cloud (sprin 'dab [སྤྲིན་འདབ་]); to left and right of square seat, and on top of round seat: pot for food (zan phor [ཟན་ཕོར་]) and replacement (gtor 'dab* []); behind square and semi-circular seat: replacement (gtor 'dab* []). [UN]

Description (butter): body: red torma (dmar gtor [དམར་གཏོར་]); butter ornamentation on torma (gtor rgyan [གཏོར་རྒྱན་]), bottom-up: half-circular butter ornament (zla gam dkar rgyan [ཟླ་གམ་དཀར་རྒྱན་]) with a flower (me tog [མེ་ཏོག་]), tree leaves (shing lo [ཤིང་ལོ་]) and fire, flower (me tog [མེ་ཏོག་]) and 2 smaller flowers, triangle butter ornament (zur gsum dkar rgyan [ཟུར་གསུམ་དཀར་རྒྱན་]) with fire. [UN]

Dimensions (HxD) [MEASUREMENTS]: -.- cm x -.- cm

Material [MATERIAL]: flour/butter

Workshop [ARTIST]: Workshop of Triten Norbutse Monastery

Artist (body): #2

Artist (butter): #5

Manuscript reference: page ?, row ?

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Manuscript (transl.):

Manuscript (engl.):

Body 360°: yes

Butter 360°: yes

Production fotos (body): yes

Production fotos (butter): yes (3rd day: UN15 1011,.. 349, 350; 4th day: UN15 1014,.. 39, 209, 210, 259, 260)

Icon.-Reference: (http://www.himalayanart.org/search/set.cfm?setID=643)

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; Sanyo003: 35:52-44:50

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