pom ra [པོམ་ར་] 4/5

Level: 4/5

Name (transl. [tib.]) [NAME:]: pom ra [པོམ་ར་]

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: waisted cylinder cup (kong bu [ཀོང་བུ་]), on top: mountain peak (rtse [རྩེ་]); 1st retinue: in front: waisted cylinder cup (kong bu [ཀོང་བུ་]), on top triangle-based ogive cylinder (zur gsum [ཟུར་གསུམ་]) with coiled snake (sbrul 'khril [སྦྲུལ་འཁྲིལ་]), and turban (thod bcing [ཐོད་བཅིང་]); left: square-based ogive cylinder (gru bzhi [གྲུ་བཞི་]) with turban (thod bcing [ཐོད་བཅིང་]); behind: triangle-based ogive cylinder (zur gsum [ཟུར་གསུམ་]) with turban (thod bcing [ཐོད་བཅིང་]); right: triangle-based ogive cylinder (zur gsum [ཟུར་གསུམ་]) with turban (thod bcing [ཐོད་བཅིང་]); in front to left: pot for food (zan phor [ཟན་ཕོར་]); surrounded by 4 replacement (gtor 'dab* []). [UN]

Description (butter): body: red torma (dmar gtor [དམར་གཏོར་]); butter ornamentation on torma (gtor rgyan [གཏོར་རྒྱན་]), bottom-up: on top snow-covered mountain (gangs ri [གངས་རི་]). [UN]

Dimensions (HxD) [MEASUREMENTS]: 20.4 cm x 10.0 cm [intermediate dimension: tr=12.0; Hcyl=9.0]

Material [MATERIAL]: flour/butter

Workshop [ARTIST]: Workshop of Triten Norbutse Monastery

Artist (body): #4

Artist (butter):

Manuscript reference: page 170-171, row 5-3; http://whav.aussereurop.univie.ac.at/ic/6390/

Manuscript (tib.): པོམ་ར་ལ་རྐོང་བུའི་སྟེང་དུ་འབྲངས་འཕྲག་ཅན་རྩེ་ལ་མར་གྱིས་བྱུག་ / མདུན་ཏུ་ལྷ་ཚན་ལ་རྐོང་བུའི་སྟེང་དུ་ཟུར་གསུམ་སྦྲུལ་འཁྲིལ་ཐོད་བཅིང་ / གཡས་སུ་རྐྱེས་བུ་ཕོ་དཀར་ལ་གྲུ་བཞི་ཐོད་བཅིང་ / གཡོན་དུ་གཉན་ཚལ་གཏོར་མ་ཐོད་བཅིང་ / རྒྱབ་དུ་བྲག་བཙན་ལ་ཟུར་གསུམ་གཡས་ཀྱུས་ཐོད་བཅིང་ /

Manuscript (transl.): pom ra la rkong (kong) bu'i steng du 'brangs 'phrag can rtse la mar gyis byug / mdun tu lha tshan la rkong bu'i steng du zur gsum sbrul 'khril thod bcing / g.yas su rkyes bu pho dkar la gru bzhi thod bcing / g.yon du gnyan tshal la gtor ma thod bcing / rgyab du brag btsan la zur gsum g.yas kyus thod bcing /

Manuscript (engl.):

Body 360°: yes

Butter 360°: yes

Production fotos (body): yes

Production fotos (butter):

Icon.-Reference: http://www.himalayanart.org/search/set.cfm?setID=682

Location [PROVENANCE]: Kathmandu

Date (body): 4th day/16.01.2015

Date (butter): 5th day/17.01.2015

Date (destruction): 19.01.2015

Notes: Video 4th day; Sanyo003: 19:55-36:46
HAR: [This Tibetan Mountain God is known both as Machen Pomra and Amnye Machen. The mountain is located in the Amdo region of North-east China.]

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