Uwe Niebuhr 2015|WHAV:ic7332
Uwe Niebuhr 2015|WHAV:ic7331
Name (tib.): མཁའ་འགྲོ་སྐལ་བཟང་
Name (translit.): mkha' 'gro skal bzang
Category: torma (gtor ma) :: yidam torma (yi dam gtor ma) :: nang rgyud [ནང་རྒྱུད་] :: upper level
Desctiption (body): gzhi rgyas dbang drag seat (gdan gzhi rgyas dbang drag [གདན་གཞི་རྒྱས་དབང་དྲག་]); on top of seat: jewel (nor bu [ནོར་བུ་]); in front of square seat, and on top of round seat: cloud (sprin 'dab [སྤྲིན་འདབ་]); left and right of square seat, and on top of round seat: pot for food (zan phor [ཟན་ཕོར་]); behind of square seat: replacement (gtor 'dab* []); behind, left and right of semi-circular seat: replacement (gtor 'dab* []). [UN]
Desctiption (butter): body: red torma (dmar gtor [དམར་གཏོར་]); butter ornamentation on torma (gtor rgyan [གཏོར་རྒྱན་]), bottom-up: lotus leaves (pad 'dab [པད་འདབ་]), tree leaves (shing lo [ཤིང་ལོ་]), sun (nyi ma [ཉི་མ་]), moon (zla ba [ཟླ་བ་]) with cloud motif (sprin ris [སྤྲིན་རིས་]), circular butter ornament (zlum po dkar rgyan [ཟླུམ་པོ་དཀར་རྒྱན་]) in the form of a jewel (nor bu [ནོར་བུ་]). [UN]
Dimensions (h x d): 32.3 cm x 18.0 cm
Material: flour, butter
Workshop: Triten Norbutse Monastery
Artist (body): Lama Yeshe Rabsal (Khyung) (ye shes rab gsal khyung)
Artist (butter): Lama Yeshe Rabsal (Thom) (ye shes rab gsal khrom)
Manuscript reference: Extratext [WHAV:121219 (page 449)] (UN15 1016,548, upper lines?!)
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Iconographical Reference: Tenzin Namdak, Yasuhiko Nagano and Musashi Tachikawa, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka 2000: Mandala 116
Date (body): 16/01/2015
Date (butter): 16/01/2015
Date (destruction): 19/01/2015

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