- 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)
- protectors of the doctrine (bka' skyongs [བཀའ་སྐྱོངས་])
- deities for phurpa ritual (sa chog [ས་ཆོག་]) {1/3, 1/4, 1/12, 1/11, 1/7}
- khyung sman [ཁྱུང་སྨན་] 4/1
khyung sman [ཁྱུང་སྨན་] 4/1
Level: 4/1
Name (transl. [tib.]) [NAME:]: khyung sman [ཁྱུང་སྨན་]
Category [OBJECTTYPE]: torma (gtor ma) :: protectors of the doctrine (bka' skyongs [བཀའ་སྐྱོངས་]) :: deities for phurpa ritual (sa chog [ས་ཆོག་])
Description (body): (no seat); center body: square-based phurpa (gru bzhi phur dbyibs [གྲུ་བཞི་ཕུར་དབྱིབས་]); 1st retinue: 4 triangle-based phurpa (zur gsum phur dbyibs [ཟུར་གསུམ་ཕུར་དབྱིབས་]) with garuḍa wings (khyung gshog [ཁྱུང་གཤོག་ཅན་]), turban (thod bcing [ཐོད་བཅིང་]), and replacement (gtor 'dab* []); in front, left and right: pot for food (zan phor [ཟན་ཕོར་]). [UN]
Description (butter): body: red torma (dmar gtor [དམར་གཏོར་]); butter ornamentation on torma (gtor rgyan [གཏོར་རྒྱན་]), bottom-up: smaller flowers, garuḍa wing (khyung gshog [ཁྱུང་གཤོག་ཅན་]), and four-leaved flower on top. [UN]
Dimensions (HxD) [MEASUREMENTS]: 19.1 cm x 8.0 cm [intermediate dimension: Hwing=10.0]
Material [MATERIAL]: flour/butter
Workshop [ARTIST]: Workshop of Triten Norbutse Monastery
Artist (body): #2
Artist (butter):
Manuscript reference: page 149, row 4-5; http://whav.aussereurop.univie.ac.at/ic/6368/
Manuscript (tib.): ཁྱུང་སྨན་ལ་ / རྩ་བ་གྲུ་བཞི་རྩེ་མོ་ཕུར་དབྱིབས་ཟུར་ཞལ་ཅན་འཁོར་ཟུར་གསུམ་ཕུར་དབྱིབས་ཁྱུང་གཤོག་ཅན་ཐོཨིང་(ཐོད་བཅིང་)བཞིའི་བསྐོར་ /
Manuscript (transl.): khyung sman la / rtsa ba gru bzhi rtse mo phur dbyibs zur zhal can 'khor zur gsum phur dbyibs khyung gshog can thoing (thod bcing) bzhi'i bskor /
Manuscript (engl.): Khyung sman: the base should be square, and the tip a phurba-shape with “mouths” on the edges (? zur zhal can). It should be surrounded by an entourage of triangular images in the shape of phurbas, with khyung wings and turbans. [CR]
Body 360°: yes
Butter 360°: yes
Production fotos (body): yes
Production fotos (butter):
Icon.-Reference:
Location [PROVENANCE]: Kathmandu
Date (body): 4th day/16.01.2015
Date (butter): 5th day/17.01.2015
Date (destruction): 19.01.2015
Notes: Video 4th day; Sanyo002: 2:30-3:15;
Garuda-medicine (khyung sman) (Jean-Luc Achard, Bon Po Hidden Treasures, p.44)
