Detail of the butter decoration on zhey-zay tormas.
These particular small ritual cakes are known as zhey-zay tormas and are made for all rituals. Each of the individual decoration is shaped from different mounds of dyed butter by hand and then carefully placed piece by piece onto the main body of the torma. Even though this work is painstakingly slow and meticulous, the materials used make it an inherently impermanent form of art, thereby
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