This clip shows the color palette used by one of the torma artists working in Bodhgaya on the Kagyu Monlam tormas.
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Wax Butter Color Palette
Posted in 17th Karmapa, Buddhism, Butter Sculpture, India, Kagyu Lineage, Kagyu Monlam, Tibet, tormas, tagged Butter sculpture, Kagyu Monlam tormas, tormas, wax butter on May 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Amchok Metok Gyens and the Nuns who Made Them
Posted in 17th Karmapa, Bodhgaya, Buddhism, Butter Sculpture, Film, India, Kagyu Lineage, Kagyu Monlam, Monlam Chenmo, Ogyen Tinley Dorje, Tibet, torma photo, tormas, tagged 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje, butter gyens, butter sculptures, Kagyu Monlam, Torma artist nuns, wax butter on April 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Amchok Metok is the name of a particularly beautiful decoration that looks like a flower and is used on the large butter sculptures that grace the shrine during the International Kagyu Monlam. Metok means flower and Amchok perhaps refers to the region of Tibet where this type of flower grew. In this clip, Tibetan Buddhist nun artists introduce themselves and demonstrate a few techniques as they prepare the flower gyens out of wax butter for the Kagyu Monlam shrine. Filmed by Ko Jung-Fa and Cynthia Chao in Bodhgaya, India in 2008-2009.
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The Gakyil gyen is similar to the Amchok Metok gyen. Gakyil means “joy swirl.” Below is a slideshow with more photos of both Amchok Metok and Gakyil.
