- 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)
- offering torma (mchod pa gtor ma [མཆོད་པ་གཏོར་མ་])
- bgegs gtor [བགེགས་གཏོར་] 5/11
bgegs gtor [བགེགས་གཏོར་] 5/11
Level: 5/11
Name (transl. [tib.]) [NAME:]: bgegs gtor [བགེགས་གཏོར་]
Category [OBJECTTYPE]:
Description (body): 2x chang bu [ཆང་བུ་]; 1x (print of) male figure (pho gdong [ཕོ་གདོང་]); 1x (print of) female figure (mo gdong [མོ་གདོང་]);
Description (butter): no butter
Dimensions (HxD) [MEASUREMENTS]: 10.0 cm x 12.0 cm
Material [MATERIAL]: flour/butter
Workshop [ARTIST]: Workshop of Triten Norbutse Monastery
Artist (body): #1
Artist (butter): -
Manuscript reference: p.(143?), z.;
Manuscript (tib.):
Manuscript (transl.):
Manuscript (engl.):
Body 360°: no
Butter 360°: yes
Production fotos (body): yes
Production fotos (butter): no 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; Sanyo002: 34:36-41:37;
Kemi "to throw the bad things of you away"
[RY]: bgegs gtor - torma to the obstructers.
[RY]: bgegs gtor - Gektor. A torma offering given to spirits and negative forces who may obstruct the sadhana practice.
[RY]: bgegs gtor - Gektor, 'hindrance torma’, [for the obstructing forces, harmful spirits].
[IW]: bgegs gtor - Gektor [torma for obstructing spirits.].
[Obstructor torma. A torma offered to obstructive spirits at the outset of an empowerment or session of practice in order to remove the impediments they could otherwise create.->https://books.google.at/books?id=OksX-pfDF4wC&pg=PA361&dq=Gektor&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi_odbxqZ3LAhUDBBoKHXrVCf04FBDoAQhMMAg]
