rgyal ba rgya mtsho [རྒྱལ་བ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་] 3/5

Level: 3/5

Name (transl. [tib.]) [NAME:]: rgyal ba rgya mtsho [རྒྱལ་བ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་]; rgyal ba kun 'dus [རྒྱལ་བ་ཀུན་འདུས་]=rgyal ba rgya mtsho [རྒྱལ་བ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་]; HAR: Kunzang Gyalwa Gyatso (kun bzang rgyal ba rgya mtsho)

Category [OBJECTTYPE]: torma (gtor ma) :: yidam torma (yi dam gtor ma) :: phyi rgyud [ཕྱི་རྒྱུད་] :: lower level: cho ga bcu gnyis kyi gtor ma [ཆོ་ག་བཅུ་གཉིས་ཀྱི་གཏོར་མ་]

Description (body): round seat (gdan zlum po [གདན་ཟླུམ་པོ་]); center body: circular-based ogive cylinder (zlum po [ཟླུམ་པོ་]); 1st retinue: 10 circular-based ogive cylinder (zlum po [ཟླུམ་པོ་]) with 8 replacement (gtor 'dab* []); in front of round seat, to left and right: pot for food (zan phor [ཟན་ཕོར་]). [UN]

Description (butter): body: white torma (dkar gtor [དཀར་གཏོར་]); butter ornamentation on torma (gtor rgyan [གཏོར་རྒྱན་]), bottom-up: 6 flower (me tog [མེ་ཏོག་]), surrounded by smaller flowers, on top: circular butter ornament (zlum po dkar rgyan [ཟླུམ་པོ་དཀར་རྒྱན་]) with flower design. [UN]

Dimensions (HxD) [MEASUREMENTS]: 32.4 cm x 18.0 cm [intermediate dimension: H2=28.1; H3=19.0]

Material [MATERIAL]: flour/butter

Workshop [ARTIST]: Workshop of Triten Norbutse Monastery

Artist (body): #11

Artist (butter): #3

Manuscript reference: page 146, row 2-3; http://whav.aussereurop.univie.ac.at/ic/6365/

Manuscript (tib.): རྒྱལ་བ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ལ་ཟླུམ་པོ་གཅིག་ལ་ཟླུམ་པོ་བཅུ་ཡིས་བསྐོར་ /

Manuscript (transl.): rgyal ba rgya mtsho la zlum po gcig la zlum po bcu yis bskor /

Manuscript (engl.): rGyal ba rgya mtsho: one cylindrical figure surrounded by ten cylindrical figures [UN]

Body 360°: yes

Butter 360°: yes

Production fotos (body): yes

Production fotos (butter): yes (UN15 1008,.. 433, 460, 473, 475, 506, 507, 515, 516, 518, 537, 541, 553, 555, 556, 557, 593, 595, 610, 620, 621, 672, 690, 709, 725, 730, 741)

Icon.-Reference: Namdak 2000, p.6; http://www.himalayanart.org/search/set.cfm?setID=639; tshogs zhing: http://whav.aussereurop.univie.ac.at/whav/media/130207/

Location [PROVENANCE]: Kathmandu

Date (body): 1st day/13.01.2015

Date (butter): 2nd day/14.01.2015

Date (destruction): 19.01.2015

Notes: Video 1st day; Sanyo004: 1:32-41:03
RY: [Gyalwa Gyatso; Ocean of Jinas / Victorious Ones; a form of Avalokiteshvara]
HAR: [Kunzang Gyalwa Gyatso is the peaceful form of Walse Ngampa. In the Bon religion all deities have both a peaceful and a wrathful form. Each of these forms also has a distinct name. Unless told or unless read from a text it is not possible to associate the peaceful deity with its own wrathful counterpart.]

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