a bse [ཨ་བསེ་] 4/8

Level: 4/8

Name (transl. [tib.]) [NAME:]: a bse [ཨ་བསེ་]; HAR: Tsen Apse

Category [OBJECTTYPE]: torma (gtor ma) :: protectors of the doctrine (bka' skyongs [བཀའ་སྐྱོངས་]) :: male protectors (pho rgyud [ཕོ་རྒྱུད་])

Description (body): round seat (gdan zlum po [གདན་ཟླུམ་པོ་]); center body: triangle-based ogive cylinder (zur gsum [ཟུར་གསུམ་]) with crossed grooves on each side, and turban (thod bcing [ཐོད་བཅིང་]); 1st retinue: 4 triangle-based ogive cylinder (zur gsum [ཟུར་གསུམ་]) with turban (thod bcing [ཐོད་བཅིང་]), and 6 replacement (gtor 'dab* []); in front, to 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: four-leaved flowers on top. [UN]

Dimensions (HxD) [MEASUREMENTS]: 21.8 cm x 10.0 cm [intermediate dimension: H2=19.2; tr=14.0]

Material [MATERIAL]: flour/butter

Workshop [ARTIST]: Workshop of Triten Norbutse Monastery

Artist (body): #1

Artist (butter):

Manuscript reference: page 172, row 3-4; http://whav.aussereurop.univie.ac.at/ic/6391/

Manuscript (tib.): བྲག་བཙན་ཨ་བསེ་ལ་ཟུར་གསུམ་བཙན་ལམ་ཅན་ཐོད་བཅིང་ལ་རང་འདྲ་གསུམ་གྱིས་བསྐོར་ /

Manuscript (transl.): brag btsan a bse la zur gsum btsan lam can thod bcing la rang 'dra gsum gyis bskor /

Manuscript (engl.):

Body 360°: yes

Butter 360°: yes

Production fotos (body): yes

Production fotos (butter):

Icon.-Reference: http://www.himalayanart.org/items/70123

Location [PROVENANCE]: Kathmandu

Date (body): 4th day/16.01.2015

Date (butter): 4th day/16.01.2015

Date (destruction): 19.01.2015

Notes: Video 4th day; Sanyo003: 21:37-36:46

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