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Operation Epic Love: notes from London
Lately I’ve had no time to develop a full blown article from up my sleeve, so I thought I’d share some gentle musings instead. Gratitude Simon from Eritrea told me he is in a good mood because he has three things: Health An unstressful job, by his reckoning, as he quite likes driving A shift that is almost over, lol He, like a lot of cabbies I’ve spoken to, loves London. He has a good attitude…
tormas
dkar rgyan - white/butter adornments (on tormas [IW]
dkar rgyan - white adornments [on tormas made of butter]; butter used in painting offerings made of flour (lit. white ornament) [RY]
brgya rtsa - brgya tsar te grangs brgya phyag ... the 100 tormas [IW]
brgya rtsa - one hundred; hundreds | the hundred tormas. {so zur gnub gnyags gter ston brgya rtsa sogs}; So, Zur, Nub, Nyag, and the hundreds of Tert?ns [RY]
gtor ma brgya rtsa - 100 tormas? self-visualization as the deity, feast practice, and 'khor 'das kyi mgron tshan bcu gcig bcas so sor gtor ril bcu re dedicating liturgy [IW]
gtor ma brgya rtsa - Hundred Tormas, an offering ritual [RY]
gtor ma brgya rtsa btang ba - perform the offering of the Hundred Tormas [RY]
gtor rtsam - tsampa for making tormas [IW]
mthong rgyun - visual transmission. The visual transmission is the direct passing on of the knowledge of how to make tormas etc. by a physical demonstration [RY]
'phrul gshen bal mtson can - having Trulshen's wool symbols [in a lesser division of B"n 'dzin pa'i bye brag chung gras rgyu'i bon te rkyen zlog [used to clear away obstacles mdos zor [ceremony involving throwing thread crosses and tormas. Trulshen is a former name of the B"n teacher Shenrab.] [IW]
'phrul gshen bal mtshon can - having Trulshen's wool symbols * Bon ceremony w throwing thread crosses and tormas] [IW]
tshogs dang gtor ma - feast gatherings and tormas [RY]
yas - 1) [from] above up[wards]; 2) B"n ransom offerings thread crosses, tormas etc.; 3) nominalizing particle, for; 4) have no chance to [IW]
