Tag Archives: Dongba
CL.A.U.D.I.A.: Computational and Updatable Dongbas Iconographic Archive
Meeting CLAUDIA
This is a draft 1.2 release of CL.A.U.D.I.A., acronym for Computational and Updatable Dongba Iconographic Archives.
CL.A.U.D.I.A. is an interdisciplinary project of Human Technology application focused about Dongba pictographic writing system of Naxi people of South-West China, [...]
Créatures mythiques animales dans les manuscrits naxis
Stefano Zamblera – Xiulong
presents
Créatures mythiques animales dans les manuscrits naxis
Complete study made for Arras Congress: “Les signes d’animaux et de créatures mythiques en Orient et en Occident“
This is the complete work I’ve made and written for Arras 2010 congress, focused on the signs dedicated to mythical animals in Naxi – Dongba tradition.
According to the [...]
Bibliography for Arras 2010
After Arras 2010 colloques have been done, and the work is now focused on the writing of the acts of congress, I’m publishing the bibliography which I consulted to prepare my contribution and relative paper.
A selected bibliography focused on Naxi – Dongba and Lijiang is however available online on author’s website:
History of Lijiang city, [...]
Bibliography
Bibliography
Selected bibliography is available online on author’s website:
History of Lijiang city, region and Naxi people: http://www.xiulong.it/4.0/Dongba/bibliography/historybibliography.htm
Naxi language: http://www.xiulong.it/4.0/Dongba/bibliography/naxilanguagebibliography.htm
Dongba tradition: http://www.xiulong.it/4.0/Dongba/bibliography/dongbatraditionbibliography.htm
Specific bibliography for Arras
AA. VV. “Naga tradition in ancient India” http://sites.google.com/site/kalyan96/NagaandNagini.pdf?attredirects=0 [ → 14/06/2010]
AA. VV. “The Naga and Buddhism” http://www.usamyanmar.net/Buddha/Article/The%20Naga%20of%20Buddhist%20Religion.pdf [ → 14/06/2010]
AA. VV. “Tibetan Spirits: The Sadak” http://www.tibetan-astrology.net/sadak.html [ → [...]
Arras 2010: data, attestations and concordances
This resource contains all data relative to attestations I’ve made preparing my study focused on Naxi – Dongba pictographs with animals’ based iconography and directly associated to deities, which is the theme I’ve to develop for Arras 2010 Congress.
Among such attestations I’ve also included a which resume and gathers all manuscripts [...]
Data, attestations and concordances
This resource contains all data relative to attestations I’ve made preparing my study focused on Naxi – Dongba pictographs with animals’ based iconography and directly associated to deities, which is the theme I’ve to develop for Arras 2010 Congress.
Among such attestations I’ve also included a which resume and gathers all manuscripts dedicated or related to [...]
A Brief Introduction To Research on Two Dongbas: He Shijun and He Wenzhi
A Brief Introduction To Research on Two Dongbas: He Shijun and He Wenzhi
Yang Yihua
Southwest University Research Institute of Chinese Language Documents
Dongba Culture has been a most favorite subject for research in the field of minority studies nowadays. However, there’s still lack of research into the life and scriptures of Dongbas who are the founders and [...]
Comment on the Dongba religion character again Resume
Comment on the Dongba religion character again Resume
Yang jie-hong Yunnan University
Abstract: There are three main viewpoints to the nature of Naxi nationality’s Dongba religion: a primitive religion; a primitive polytheism religion, a transitional religion which from the primitive religion to the artificially founded religion. Owing to above different views of the Dongba religion’s nature, [...]
A Comparison Between the Development of the Chinese Writing System and Dongba Pictographs
A Comparison Between the Development of the Chinese Writing System and Dongba Pictographs
Seaver Milnor
University of Washington
The Naxi Dongba pictographic script is strikingly different from Chinese characters in the complexity of graphs. To draw an analogy with ancient Egyptian, even the traditional Chinese characters still in use in Hong Kong and Taiwan are like a [...]
Dongba pictographic and Geba writing systems iconographic and thematic index plates and classification
Dongba pictographic and Geba writing systems iconographic and thematic index plates and classification
Stefano Zamblera, University of Pisa
My aim is writing a complete system of iconographic and thematic index plates, with the purpose of studying, collecting and classifying the whole Dongba pictographs and Geba significants corpora in a complete Dongba Geba annotated catalogue.
Each plate will be [...]