Tag Archives: Dongba
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 [...]
Move to the “disappearance” or toward “shared humanity ” – the road of the Naxi Dongba culture from 1949 to 21st century
Move to the “disappearance” or toward “shared humanity “ - the road of the Naxi Dongba culture from 1949 to 21st century
Lin Xiangxiao
Special adviser for Naxi School Research Institute of China Yunnan National Academy
From 1949 to 21st century, the Dongba religion as the carrier, the Dongba Scriptures as the quintessence, and Dongba as inheritors to [...]
An Ethnography on Present New Dongbas Education and Dongba Culture Inheritance
An Ethnography on Present New Dongbas Education and Dongba Culture Inheritance
Dongba Culture Research Institute： The Inheritance and Protetion of Dongba Culture and Young Dongba Education Done by An Academic Institution
Dongbas (Dongba priests) are living carriers of Naxi traditional Dongba Culture. The efficiency of new Dongbas training decides the fate of Dongba Culture protection. Since its [...]
A Study on Ancient Naxi Dongba Manuscripts from the Perspective of Social Gender – A Case Study on Dajifeng Ritual
A Study on Ancient Naxi Dongba Manuscripts from the Perspective of Social Gender – A Case Study on Dajifeng Ritual
Li Ying
Institute of Dongba Culture of Lijiang City
Feminists usually hold that men and women in the real-life society are predominately controlled by a set of “gender culture”. The set of culture instructions designate that you belong [...]
Fundamental research on the texts of Naxi Dongba script – Extraction of a framework based on frequency of appearance of pictographs
Fundamental research on the texts of Naxi Dongba script – Extraction of a framework based on frequency of appearance of pictographs
Naomichi KUROSAWA（黑泽直道）日本国学院大学
The ritual texts used in the religion of the Naxi people are written in a distinct script known as “Dongba script”, which is both written in and read by Naxi priests, themselves known as [...]
Educational Analysis on the Cultural Transmission and Inheritance of Dongba Dance Culture
Educational Analysis on the Cultural Transmission and Inheritance of Dongba Dance Culture
Hu Diya
Preparatory Education School of the Minzu University of China, 100081
According to Bourdieu’s theories of cultural capitalism and cultural reproduction, this dissertation tries to interpret the endangerment of Dongba dance culture at the perspective of education. Firstly, the author demonstrates the actuality and the [...]
The research about setting up an ecological Dongba culture reserve in Shuming
The research about setting up an ecological Dongba culture reserve in Shuming
He Rui
Culture dept. Jade Water Village eco-tourism company
To set up an ecological reserve, three elemental problems have to be solved in advance, which are who will in charge of the management to the reserve, how a villager to participate in the management and how [...]