rnam dag [རྣམ་དག་] 3/8

Level: 3/8

Name (transl. [tib.]) [NAME:]: rnam dag [རྣམ་དག་]; rnam dag yum [རྣམ་དག་ཡུམ་]

Category [OBJECTTYPE]: torma (gtor ma) :: yidam torma (yi dam gtor ma) :: phyi rgyud [ཕྱི་རྒྱུད་] :: lower level: cho ga bcu gnyis kyi gtor ma [ཆོ་ག་བཅུ་གཉིས་ཀྱི་གཏོར་མ་]

Description (body): bottom-up: 3 square seat (gdan gru bzhi [གདན་གྲུ་བཞི་]), on top (center body): circular-based ogive cylinder (zlum po [ཟླུམ་པོ་]); 1st retinue on upper square seat: 4 circular-based ogive cylinder (zlum po [ཟླུམ་པོ་]); 2nd retinue on square seat, second from top: 8 circular-based ogive cylinder (zlum po [ཟླུམ་པོ་]) (later on, only 7 after butter decoration); 3rd retinue on square seat, 3rd from top: in front, left, right: circular-based ogive cylinder (zlum po [ཟླུམ་པོ་]), surrounded by 6 replacement (gtor 'dab* []); in front (later on: right), on square seat, 3rd from top, to left and right: pot for food (zan phor [ཟན་ཕོར་]). [UN]

Description (butter): body: white torma (dkar gtor [དཀར་གཏོར་]); butter ornamentation on torma (gtor rgyan [གཏོར་རྒྱན་]), bottom-up: lotus leaves (pad 'dab [པད་འདབ་]), 4 flower (me tog [མེ་ཏོག་]), surrounded by smaller flowers, on top: circular butter ornament (zlum po dkar rgyan [ཟླུམ་པོ་དཀར་རྒྱན་]) with flower design. [UN]

Dimensions (HxD) [MEASUREMENTS]: 28.8 cm x 13.0 cm [intermediate dimension: H2=27.7; tr=20.2; Hseat=11.0]

Material [MATERIAL]: flour/butter

Workshop [ARTIST]: Workshop of Triten Norbutse Monastery

Artist (body): #10

Artist (butter): #9

Manuscript reference: page 146-147, row 5-1; http://whav.aussereurop.univie.ac.at/ic/6365/

Manuscript (tib.): རྣམ་དག་ལ་གྲུ་བཞི་སུམ་བརྩེགས་སྟེང་དུ་ལྷ་བཤོས་གཙོ་འཁོར་ལྔ་ / དེའི་འོག་བཤོས་བུ་བརྒྱད་ / དེའི་འོག་བཤོས་བུ་བཞི་ཡིས་བསྐོར་ /

Manuscript (transl.): rnam dag la gru bzhi sum brtsegs steng du lha bshos gtso 'khor lnga / de'i 'og bshos bu brgyad / de'i 'og bshos bu bzhi yis bskor /

Manuscript (engl.):

Body 360°: yes

Butter 360°: yes

Production fotos (body): yes

Production fotos (butter): yes (UN15 1008,.. 557, 593, 596, 621, 690, 710, 729, 730)

Icon.-Reference: Namdak 2000, p.10; tshogs zhing: http://whav.aussereurop.univie.ac.at/whav/media/130199/

Location [PROVENANCE]: Kathmandu

Date (body): 2nd day/14.01.2015

Date (butter): 2nd day/14.01.2015

Date (destruction): 19.01.2015

Notes: Video 2nd day; Sanyo001: 00:00-16:42

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