ge khod [གེ་ཁོད་] 1/8

Level: 1/8

Name (transl. [tib.]) [NAME:]: ge khod [གེ་ཁོད་]

Category [OBJECTTYPE]: torma (gtor ma) :: yidam torma (yi dam gtor ma) :: nang rgyud [ནང་རྒྱུད་] :: lower level

Description (body): round seat (gdan zlum po [གདན་ཟླུམ་པོ་]); center body: triangle-based ogive cylinder (zur gsum [ཟུར་གསུམ་]) with left (3x), behind (2x), right (3x) head (mgo [མགོ་]); 1st retinue: 8 triangle-based ogive cylinder (zur gsum [ཟུར་གསུམ་]) with 8 replacement (gtor 'dab* []); in front: print of seat-providing animals (gdan 'bul** []); in front (1x), left (2x) and right (2x) of print: cloud (sprin 'dab [སྤྲིན་འདབ་]); 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: half-circular butter ornament (zla gam dkar rgyan [ཟླ་གམ་དཀར་རྒྱན་]) with a flower (me tog [མེ་ཏོག་]), tree leaves (shing lo [ཤིང་ལོ་]) and fire, flower (me tog [མེ་ཏོག་]), triangle butter ornament (zur gsum dkar rgyan [ཟུར་གསུམ་དཀར་རྒྱན་]) with fire. [UN]

Dimensions (HxD) [MEASUREMENTS]: 36.1 cm x 17.0 cm [intermediate dimension: h2=29.9; tr=20.6]

Material [MATERIAL]: flour/butter

Workshop [ARTIST]: Workshop of Triten Norbutse Monastery

Artist (body): #11

Artist (butter): #3

Manuscript reference: page 156, row 2-3; http://whav.aussereurop.univie.ac.at/ic/6375/

Manuscript (tib.): གེ་ཁོད་གསང་དྲག་ལ་ཟླུམྲ་(ཟླུམ་པོར་)ར་དགུ་ལ་འཁོར་གཏོར་ཕྲན་བརྒྱད་ཀྱི་བསྐོར་ / གཏོར་འདབས་སེང་གླང་སྟག་རྟ་(chruion་) / རྟེན་འཇུག་ལ་ཟུར་གསུམ་ར་དགུ་དང་(གྲུཨི་)རྩེ་ལྔ་ / མདུན་ཏུ་གསས་རྡོ་ / འབྲངས་ཞལ་དཀར་བཅུ་གསུམ་དང་གཡག་ལུག་ར་གསུམ་ཁྱུང་དང་རྟ་མཆོག་སོགས་ཀྱི་བརྒྱན་ /

Manuscript (transl.): ge khod gsang drag la zlumr (zlum por) ra dgu la 'khor gtor phran brgyad kyi bskor / gtor 'dabs seng glang stag rta (chruion) / rten 'jug la zur gsum ra dgu dang (grui) rtse lnga / mdun tu gsas rdo / 'brangs zhal dkar bcu gsum dang g.yag lug ra gsum khyung dang rta mchog sogs kyi brgyan /

Manuscript (engl.):

Body 360°: yes

Butter 360°: yes

Production fotos (body): yes

Production fotos (butter): yes (UN15 1014,.. 39, 40, 91, 179, 208, 209, 210, 211, 259, 260, 261)

Icon.-Reference: http://www.himalayanart.org/search/set.cfm?setID=638; [Tenzin Namdak, Yasuhiko Nagano and Musashi Tachikawa, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka 2000: Mandala 74]

Location [PROVENANCE]: Kathmandu

Date (body): 3rd day/15.01.2015

Date (butter): 4th day/16.01.2015

Date (destruction): 19.01.2015

Notes: Video 3rd day; Sanyo003: 11:55-1:02:37; Sanyo004: 00:00-00:30

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