Uwe Niebuhr 2015|WHAV:ic7346
Uwe Niebuhr 2015|WHAV:ic7347
Name (tib.): ཁྱུང་སྨན་
Name (translit.): khyung sman
Category: torma (gtor ma) :: protectors of the doctrine (bka' skyongs [བཀའ་སྐྱོངས་]) :: deities for phurpa ritual (sa chog [ས་ཆོག་])
Desctiption (body): (no seat); center body: square-based phurpa (gru bzhi phur dbyibs [གྲུ་བཞི་ཕུར་དབྱིབས་]); 1st retinue: 4 triangle-based phurpa (zur gsum phur dbyibs [ཟུར་གསུམ་ཕུར་དབྱིབས་]) with garuḍa wings (khyung gshog [ཁྱུང་གཤོག་ཅན་]), turban (thod bcing [ཐོད་བཅིང་]), and replacement (gtor 'dab* []); in front, left and right: pot for food (zan phor [ཟན་ཕོར་]). [UN]
Desctiption (butter):  
Dimensions (h x d): 19.1 cm x 8.0 cm
Material: flour, butter
Workshop: Triten Norbutse Monastery
Artist (body): Lama Tsultrim Gyaltsen (tshul khrims rgyal mtshan)
Artist (butter):  
Manuscript reference: page 149, row 4-5; http://whav.aussereurop.univie.ac.at/ic/6368/
Text passage (tib.): ཁྱུང་སྨན་ལ་ / རྩ་བ་གྲུ་བཞི་རྩེ་མོ་ཕུར་དབྱིབས་ཟུར་ཞལ་ཅན་འཁོར་ཟུར་གསུམ་ཕུར་དབྱིབས་ཁྱུང་གཤོག་ཅན་ཐོཨིང་(ཐོད་བཅིང་)བཞིའི་བསྐོར་ /
Text passage (translit.): khyung sman la / rtsa ba gru bzhi rtse mo phur dbyibs zur zhal can 'khor zur gsum phur dbyibs khyung gshog can thoing (thod bcing) bzhi'i bskor /
Text passage (eng.): Khyung sman: the base should be square, and the tip a phurba-shape with “mouths” on the edges (? zur zhal can). It should be surrounded by an entourage of triangular images in the shape of phurbas, with khyung wings and turbans. [CR]
Iconographical Reference:  
Date (body): 16/01/2015
Date (butter): 17/01/2015
Date (destruction): 19/01/2015

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