rnam rgyal [རྣམ་རྒྱལ་] 2/5

Level: 2/5

Name (transl. [tib.]) [NAME:]: rnam rgyal [རྣམ་རྒྱལ་]

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

Description (body): round seat (gdan zlum po [གདན་ཟླུམ་པོ་]); center body: square-based ogive cylinder (gru bzhi [གྲུ་བཞི་]); 1st retinue: 4 circular-based ogive cylinder (zlum po [ཟླུམ་པོ་]); 2nd retinue: 4 triangle-based ogive cylinder (zur gsum [ཟུར་གསུམ་]) with left (3x), behind (2x), right (3x) head (mgo [མགོ་]); to left and right: pot for food (zan phor [ཟན་ཕོར་]); surrounded with 9 replacement (gtor 'dab* []), and 47 spherical pills (ril bu [རིལ་བུ་]). [UN]

Description (butter): body: white torma (dkar gtor [དཀར་གཏོར་]) with 4 red retinue tormas; butter ornamentation on torma (gtor rgyan [གཏོར་རྒྱན་]), bottom-up: smaller lotus leaves (pad 'dab [པད་འདབ་]), 2 flower (me tog [མེ་ཏོག་]), circular butter ornament (zlum po dkar rgyan [ཟླུམ་པོ་དཀར་རྒྱན་]) with flower design. [UN]

Dimensions (HxD) [MEASUREMENTS]: 31.4 cm x 17.0 cm [intermediate dimension: h2=27.8; tr=18.1]

Material [MATERIAL]: flour/butter

Workshop [ARTIST]: Workshop of Triten Norbutse Monastery

Artist (body): #11

Artist (butter): #6

Manuscript reference: page 140-141, row 4-1; http://whav.aussereurop.univie.ac.at/ic/6359/

Manuscript (tib.): རྣམ་རྒྱལ་ལ་ / གདན་མནྜལ་དབུས་སུ་གཏོར་མ་གྲུ་བཞི་རྩེ་རྒྱལ་ལ་ཟུར་རེ་ལ་(བྷ྄་?)བཤོས་རེ་ / ཕྱོགས་བཞི་ལ་གཏོར་མ་ཟུར་གསུམ་རྭ་དགུ་བཏག་པ་རེ་དང་ / མཐར་རིལ་བུའི་བསྐོར་ / ཁྱུང་འབྲུག་སེང་གསུམ་གྱིས་བརྒྱན་ /

Manuscript (transl.): rnam rgyal la / gdan man+Dal dbus su gtor ma gru bzhi rtse rgyal la zur re la (b+ha?) bshos re / phyogs bzhi la gtor ma zur gsum rwa dgu btag pa re dang / mthar ril bu'i bskor / khyung 'brug seng gsum gyis brgyan /

Manuscript (engl.): For the rNam rgyal (torma): In the middle of a mandala seat, there should be a square torma, with a "victory peak" (? rtse rgyal), with one food-torma (bshos) on each edge; at each of the four directions there should be one triangular torma with nine horns attached (rwa dgu btag pa), and it should be surrounded on the perimeter with spherical pills. It should be ornamented with a khyung, a dragon and a lion. [CR]

Body 360°: yes

Butter 360°: yes

Production fotos (body): yes

Production fotos (butter): yes (UN15 1008,.. 746, 749, 750)

Icon.-Reference: (http://www.himalayanart.org/search/set.cfm?setID=588)

Location [PROVENANCE]: Kathmandu

Date (body): 2nd day/14.01.2015

Date (butter): 2nd day/14.01.2015

Date (destruction): 19.01.2015

Notes: Video 2nd day; Sanyo001: 30:40-1:02:37; Sanyo002: 00:00-10:59

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