las mkhan [ལས་མཁན་] 4/20

Level: 4/20

Name (transl. [tib.]) [NAME:]: las mkhan [ལས་མཁན་]

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: heart (snying 'dra [སྙིང་འདྲ་]), surrounded by 6 replacement (gtor 'dab* []); in front 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: 1 four-leaved flower in the middle, and fire on the upper edges. [UN]

Dimensions (HxD) [MEASUREMENTS]: 16.0 cm x 9.0 cm [intermediate dimension: H2=7.0]

Material [MATERIAL]: flour/butter

Workshop [ARTIST]: Workshop of Triten Norbutse Monastery

Artist (body): #10

Artist (butter):

Manuscript reference: page 150, row 1; http://whav.aussereurop.univie.ac.at/ic/6369/

Manuscript (tib.): ལས་མཁན་ལ་ཟུར་གསུམ་སྙིང་འདྲ་ལ་ཐེབ་ཀྱུ་གྲངས་གིས་བསྐོར་ /

Manuscript (transl.): las mkhan la zur gsum snying 'dra la theb kyu grangs gis bskor /

Manuscript (engl.): The agents (las mkhan): triangular, heart-shaped, surrounded by numerous buttons/tetrahedrons (theb kyu). [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): 5th day/17.01.2015

Date (destruction): 19.01.2015

Notes: Video 4th day; Sanyo001: 31:07-50:10

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