Uwe Niebuhr 2015|WHAV:ic7359
Uwe Niebuhr 2015|WHAV:ic7360
Name (tib.): ལས་མཁན་
Name (translit.): las mkhan
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: heart (snying 'dra [སྙིང་འདྲ་]), surrounded by 6 replacement (gtor 'dab* []); in front to left and right: pot for food (zan phor [ཟན་ཕོར་]). [UN]
Desctiption (butter):  
Dimensions (h x d): 16.0 cm x 9.0 cm
Material: flour, butter
Workshop: Triten Norbutse Monastery
Artist (body): Lama Yeshe Rabsal (Khyung) (ye shes rab gsal khyung)
Artist (butter):  
Manuscript reference: page 150, row 1; http://whav.aussereurop.univie.ac.at/ic/6369/
Text passage (tib.): ལས་མཁན་ལ་ཟུར་གསུམ་སྙིང་འདྲ་ལ་ཐེབ་ཀྱུ་གྲངས་གིས་བསྐོར་ /
Text passage (translit.): las mkhan la zur gsum snying 'dra la theb kyu grangs gis bskor /
Text passage (eng.): The agents (las mkhan): triangular, heart-shaped, surrounded by numerous buttons/tetrahedrons (theb kyu). [CR]
Iconographical Reference:  
Date (body): 16/01/2015
Date (butter): 17/01/2015
Date (destruction): 19/01/2015

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