His Holiness visits the Royal Bhutanese Monastery

December 26, 2008, report by Jo Gibson, photos taken by Karma Norbu, Tashi Paljor

His Holiness once more visited the Royal Bhutanese Monastery in order to check on progress in making the Kagyu Monlam torma (butter sculptures). All the smaller tormas were ready, one of the six large special tormas was finished, and the others were nearing completion.

This year a film crew is making a documentary about the unique Tibetan tradition of butter sculptures, and they filmed His Holiness writing the word ‘torma’ with brush and ink in Tibetan calligraphic style.