Uwe Niebuhr 2015|WHAV:ic7400
Uwe Niebuhr 2015|WHAV:ic7400
Name (tib.): ཀློང་རྒྱས་
Name (translit.): klong rgyas
Category: torma (gtor ma) :: yidam torma (yi dam gtor ma) :: phyi rgyud [ཕྱི་རྒྱུད་] :: upper level
Desctiption (body):

Description (body): square seat (gdan gru bzhi [གདན་གྲུ་བཞི་]); center body: two-storey Bön temple (gsas khang [གསས་ཁང་]), on top: flower (me tog [མེ་ཏོག་]); in front: butter lamp (mar me [མར་མེ་]); left: divine purifying smoke (lha bsang [ལྷ་བསང་]); behind: offering water (tshan chab [ཚན་ཆབ་]); right: incense (spos [སྤོས་]); in front to left and right of butter lamp: pot for food (zan phor [ཟན་ཕོར་]). [UN]

Desctiption (butter):  
Dimensions (h x d): 24.2 cm x 12.0 cm
Material: flour, butter
Workshop: Triten Norbutse Monastery
Artist (body): Lama Yeshe Rabsal (Khyung) (ye shes rab gsal khyung)
Artist (butter): Lama Thrichug Lhundup (khri gtsug lhun grub)
Manuscript reference: p.138-139, z.4-1; http://whav.aussereurop.univie.ac.at/ic/6357/
Text passage (tib.): མདོ་གཡུང་དྲུང་ཀྲོང་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་གཏོར་མ་ལ་ / གསས་ཁང་གྲུ་བཞི་གཉིས་བརྩེགས་ཁ་པད་ཅན་ / སྟེང་དུ་མེ་ཏོག་ / ཤར་མར་མེ་ / བྱང་དུ་སྤོས་ / ནུབ་དུ་ཚན་ཆབ་ / ལྷོ་རུ་ལྷ་སང་ /
Text passage (translit.): mdo g.yung drung krong rgyas kyi gtor ma la / gsas khang gru bzhi gnyis brtsegs kha pad can / steng du me tog / shar mar me / byang du spos / nub du tshan chab / lho ru lha sang /
Text passage (eng.): First, the gYung drung krong rgyas (Upright and Vast Eternal) torma. A square temple (gsas khang) with a kha pad (open lotus?). On top there is a flower; to the east: a butterlamp; north: incense; west: offering-water (tshan chab); south: divine purifying smoke (lha sang = lha bsang?). [CR]
Iconographical Reference:  http://www.himalayanart.org/items/85511
Date (body): 14/01/2015
Date (butter): 14/01/2015
Date (destruction): 19/01/2015

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