Torma
Torma (gtor.ma, ‘scattered (oblation)’; Skt., bali, ‘offering’). Sacrificial cake-offering in Tibetan Buddhism, made of barley flour, brightly decorated with coloured butter and shaped according to ritual requirements. It is so called because almost invariably it is scattered for eating by birds and animals after the ceremony, though occasionally it may be consumed during the ritual. Tormas may be offered to bodhisattvas, ḍākinīs, local spirits, even as bribes to satisfy demons. Tormas often play a part in empowerment (Skt., abhiṣekha; Tib., dbang.bskur) rituals, where the empowerment to perform the practice of a particular deity is given by the lama first projecting the deity into the torma, and then anointing the disciple with it.
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