- 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}
- sa bdag [ས་བདག་] 4/18
sa bdag [ས་བདག་] 4/18
Level: 4/18
Name (transl. [tib.]) [NAME:]: sa bdag [ས་བདག་]
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 ogive cylinder (gru bzhi [གྲུ་བཞི་]) with turban (thod bcing [ཐོད་བཅིང་]); 1st retinue: in front: circular-based ogive cylinder (zlum po [ཟླུམ་པོ་]) with turban (thod bcing [ཐོད་བཅིང་]), left: triangle-based ogive cylinder (zur gsum [ཟུར་གསུམ་]) with turban (thod bcing [ཐོད་བཅིང་]), behind: half-circular-based ogive cylinder (zla gam [ཟླ་གམ་]) with turban (thod bcing [ཐོད་བཅིང་]), right: square-based ogive cylinder (gru bzhi [གྲུ་བཞི་]) with turban (thod bcing [ཐོད་བཅིང་]); in front to left and right: pot for food (zan phor [ཟན་ཕོར་]); behind to left and right: replacement (gtor 'dab* []). [UN]
Description (butter): body: red torma (dmar gtor [དམར་གཏོར་]); butter ornamentation on torma (gtor rgyan [གཏོར་རྒྱན་]), bottom-up: smaller flowers, and 1 four-leaved flowers on top. [UN]
Dimensions (HxD) [MEASUREMENTS]: 20.2 cm x 9.0 cm [intermediate dimension: H2=17.5; H3=10.0]
Material [MATERIAL]: flour/butter
Workshop [ARTIST]: Workshop of Triten Norbutse Monastery
Artist (body): #10
Artist (butter):
Manuscript reference: page 150, row 2; http://whav.aussereurop.univie.ac.at/ic/6369/
Manuscript (tib.): ས་བདག་ལ་གྲུ་བཞི་ཐོད་བཅིང་ལ་འཁོར་ཞི་རྒྱས་དབང་དྲགིས་(དྲག་གིས་)བསྐོར་ /
Manuscript (transl.): sa bdag la gru bzhi thod bcing la 'khor zhi rgyas dbang dragis (drag gis) bskor /
Manuscript (engl.): The lords of the earth (sa bdag): square, with a turban, surrounded by an entourage of images representing the peaceful, prospering, overpowering and destructive actions. [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): 4th day/16.01.2015
Date (destruction): 19.01.2015
Notes: Video 4th day; Sanyo001: 37:00-50:10
