| Name (tib.): | དབལ་གསས་ |
| Name (translit.): | dbal gsas |
| Category: | torma (gtor ma) :: yidam torma (yi dam gtor ma) :: nang rgyud [ནང་རྒྱུད་] :: lower level |
| Desctiption (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་]); in front to right: print of seat-providing animals (gdan 'bul** []); in front to left: replacement (gtor 'dab* []); in front: cloud (sprin 'dab [སྤྲིན་འདབ་]); to left and right: pot for food (zan phor [ཟན་ཕོར་]); to left (1x) and right (2x): replacement (gtor 'dab* []). [UN] |
| Desctiption (butter): | |
| Dimensions (h x d): | 34.2 cm x 17.0 cm |
| Material: | flour, butter |
| Workshop: | Triten Norbutse Monastery |
| Artist (body): | Lama Kalsang Losal (skal bzang blo gsal) |
| Artist (butter): | Lama Khenrab Gyamtso (mkhyer rab rgya mtsho) |
| Manuscript reference: | p.148 [p.166?], z.2; http://whav.aussereurop.univie.ac.at/ic/6367/ |
| Text passage (tib.): | དབལ་གསས་ལ་ཟུར་གསུམ་རྭ་དགུ་ལ་གཏོར་ཕྲན་བརྒྱད་ཀྱིས་བསྐོར་ |
| Text passage (translit.): | dbal gsas la zur gsum rwa dgu la gtor phran brgyad kyis bskor |
| Text passage (eng.): | For dBal gsas: a triangular figure with nine horns, surrounded by eight small tormas. [CR] |
| Iconographical Reference: | http://www.himalayanart.org/search/set.cfm?setID=499; [Tenzin Namdak, Yasuhiko Nagano and Musashi Tachikawa, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka 2000: Mandala 67 & 68 & 69 & 100] |
| Date (body): | 15/01/2015 |
| Date (butter): | 16/01/2015 |
| Date (destruction): | 19/01/2015 |
