Uwe Niebuhr 2015|WHAV:ic7453
Uwe Niebuhr 2015|WHAV:ic7454
Name (tib.): རྣམ་རྒྱལ་
Name (translit.): rnam rgyal
Category: torma (gtor ma) :: yidam torma (yi dam gtor ma) :: phyi rgyud [ཕྱི་རྒྱུད་] :: upper level
Desctiption (body): round seat (gdan zlum po [གདན་ཟླུམ་པོ་]); center body: square-based ogive cylinder (gru bzhi [གྲུ་བཞི་]); 1st retinue: 4 circular-based ogive cylinder (zlum po [ཟླུམ་པོ་]); 2nd retinue: 4 triangle-based ogive cylinder (zur gsum [ཟུར་གསུམ་]) with left (3x), behind (2x), right (3x) head (mgo [མགོ་]); to left and right: pot for food (zan phor [ཟན་ཕོར་]); surrounded with 9 replacement (gtor 'dab* []), and 47 spherical pills (ril bu [རིལ་བུ་]). [UN]
Desctiption (butter):  
Dimensions (h x d): 31.4 cm x 17.0 cm
Material: flour, butter
Workshop: Triten Norbutse Monastery
Artist (body): Lama Tsonyi Gyatso (tshogs gnyis rgya mtsho)
Artist (butter): Lama Thrichug Lhundup (khri gtsug lhun grub)
Manuscript reference: p.140-141, z.4-1; http://whav.aussereurop.univie.ac.at/ic/6359/
Text passage (tib.): རྣམ་རྒྱལ་ལ་ / གདན་མནྜལ་དབུས་སུ་གཏོར་མ་གྲུ་བཞི་རྩེ་རྒྱལ་ལ་ཟུར་རེ་ལ་(བྷ྄་?)བཤོས་རེ་ / ཕྱོགས་བཞི་ལ་གཏོར་མ་ཟུར་གསུམ་རྭ་དགུ་བཏག་པ་རེ་དང་ / མཐར་རིལ་བུའི་བསྐོར་ / ཁྱུང་འབྲུག་སེང་གསུམ་གྱིས་བརྒྱན་
Text passage (translit.): rnam rgyal la / gdan man+Dal dbus su gtor ma gru bzhi rtse rgyal la zur re la (b+ha?) bshos re / phyogs bzhi la gtor ma zur gsum rwa dgu btag pa re dang / mthar ril bu'i bskor / khyung 'brug seng gsum gyis brgyan
Text passage (eng.): For the rNam rgyal (torma): In the middle of a mandala seat, there should be a square torma, with a "victory peak" (? rtse rgyal), with one food-torma (bshos) on each edge; at each of the four directions there should be one triangular torma with nine horns attached (rwa dgu btag pa), and it should be surrounded on the perimeter with spherical pills. It should be ornamented with a khyung, a dragon and a lion. [CR]
Iconographical Reference: http://www.himalayanart.org/search/set.cfm?setID=588
Date (body): 14/01/2015
Date (butter): 14/01/2015
Date (destruction): 19/01/2015

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