Tibetan butter sculpture — torma, or tsepdro — is a votive relief art molded from dyed yak butter and barley flour, tinted with the same mineral pigments that color thangka painting: cinnabar, azurite, malachite, orpiment, pearl. Stacked into tiered conical forms and crowned with flame and lotus-petal ornament, the offerings are set on dark monastery altars and read by butter-lamp light, especially at Losar, the Tibetan New Year. This system translates that altar into a screen: a saturated, densely ornamented bright relief glowing out of near-black temple gloom, every surface hand-worked and maximally detailed.