Material: red copper carving and casting

Dimensions: 11.7 x 20 cm

Narration:

Doma (Tibetan: གཏོར་མ།, Wiley transliteration: gtor ma, THL: Tor-ma, Sanskrit: Balingta or Nayviday), also known as food, Doma, Doma, Sacrificial food, in Tibetan Buddhism, is a dough-shaped food made of tsampa or cooked wheat flour and butter, used to make offerings to Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, deities or gods, or to feed ghosts. They can be dyed in different colors, but are generally white or red in color. It can be made into different shapes according to different uses, usually conical. Although tormas are generally small and can be placed directly on a shrine or tray, large tormas are also made during major festivals.

The raw materials are mainly three whites and three sweets (milk, cheese, ghee, rock sugar, honey). The raw materials may vary slightly depending on the region. For example, the group food offered to gods in India should be the prototype of Doma, which is offered to the ministry and the line. The deities of the Yoga Department and the Yoga Department basically use white food seeds (Tibetan pronunciation: Gadot). Most of the offerings to the Supreme Yoga Department and the protectors use red food seeds (Tibetan pronunciation: Maduo) and add internal offering nectar to the raw materials. .

According to the rituals of different inheritance deities, there will be different offering tormas. For example, the ritual of offering Tara will use a white cone with butter flower pieces attached, and there are torma with four lotus petals around the bottom layer. The general deity’s There is not much difference in the torma offered, but the torma offered to the Supreme Yoga deity usually has different shapes.

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