Torma; 朵瑪, 食子; Tibetan: གཏོར་མ (torma); Wylie: gtor ma; Sanskrit: Balingha;
Torma is a offering cake made from barley flour (tsampa), butter, coloured dyes and other ingredients such as egg, milk, cheese, sugar, honey. Tormas are used in many Tibetan Buddhism rituals such as:
- on a shrine to represent deities
- as offering tormas for deities, dharmapala, or obstructing spirits
- consumed by practitioners in feast practices and as offering to lower beings after being blessed
- to remove obstacles and obstructing spirits as part of a ritual
- as medicinal torma to extract illness and obstacles from patients and then cast away.
朵瑪, 食子是用大麥奶油和糖等製作的一種藏傳佛教儀式物品:
- 代表本尊
- 供養本尊
- 象徵除去障礙
- 作為食用及藥用食子或供養下等眾生
Synonyms/Additional Terms 同義詞:
Torma, 朵瑪, 食子, Balingha