Selected bibliography about Dongba tradition
- BACOT Jacques,1913 “Les Mosso, ethnographie des Mosso, leurs religions, leur langue et leur écriture, avec les documents historiques et géographiques relatifs à Li-kiang” par Ed. Chavannes. Leiden: E.J. Brill.
- BENEDIKTER Laura, 2009 “Cadre général du Dongba: entre mythographie et notation phonétique” Mémoire de Master 2, Année Universitaire 2008-2009 unpublished
- 卜金荣 - BU Jinrong,1999 “纳西东巴文化要籍及传承概览 - Naxi dongba wenhua yaoji ji chuancheng gailan [A Survey of Naxi Dongba Culture Books and Inheritance]” 云南民族出版社 - Kunming: Yunnan Minzu Chubanshe.
- De FRANCIS John, 1989 “Visible Speech, the diverse oneness of writing systems” University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu
- FANG Guoyu and HE Zhiwu, 1995 “Naxi Xiangxing Wenzi Pu [Dictionnaire des caractères pictographiques naxi]” Kunming, Yunnan Renmin Chubanshe
- 傅懋勣 - FU Maoji, 1981, 1984 “纳西语图画文字 - Naxi-zu tuhua-wenzi: 白蝙蝠取经记 - [A study of the Naxi pictographic manuscript]. Computational Analyses of Asian and African Languages (Tokyo), Monograph Series 6.
- 和品正, 宣勤 - HE Pinzheng, XUAN Qin, 2004 "东巴常用字典 - Naxi Dongba Pictograph Dictionary”, Yunnan Fine Arts Publishing House
- 和发源 - HE F., 1991 "东巴古籍的类别及其主题 [A classification and the main themes of dto-mba scriptures]" in： 郭大烈， 杨世光 - Guo D, Yang S (eds.)"东巴文化论 [Collected Papers on dto-mba culture]" 云南人民出版社 - Yunnan People’s Press, Kunming: 600-621.
- JANEKOVIC Dragan
- “2me ši 3džar 1do - Smrt majke Jugovića [ The Death of the Mother of the Jugovitch]” a Serbian classic novel translated in Na-khi (Naxi) written in pictographs
- 2005 “1Na 2Si Srpski Rečnik”, Narodna biblioteka Srbije – Beograd
- JACKSON Anthony
- 1965 “Mo-so magical texts” Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 48 (1)
- 1979 “Na-khi Religion: An Analytical appraisal of the Na-khi Ritual Texts” Mouton, The Hague.
- 李霖灿, 张琨, 和才 - LI Lincan, ZHANG Kun, HE Cai, 1953 “ 麽些象形文字字典 - Moxie xiangxing wenzi zidian [A dictionary of Moxie pictographs]” Hong Kong: 说文社 Shuowenshe. Revised edition in 2001 by 云南民族出版社 Yunnan Minzu Chubanshe, under the title “纳西象形文字字典 - Naxi xiangxing wenzi zidian [A dictionary of Naxi pictographs]”
- ROCK Joseph F.,
- 1924 “Banishing the devil of disease among the Na-khi”. National Geographic Society Magazine, xlvi( 5): 473-499.
- 1935 “The story of the flood in the literature of the Na-khi tribe”. Journal of the West China Border Research Society, 7: 64-82.
- 1936 “The origin of the Tso-la books of divination of the Na-khi sorcerers” Journal of the West China Border Research Society. 8: 39-54.
- 1936 “Hä-la or the killing of the soul as practised by Na-khi sorcerers” Journal of the West China Border Research Society. 8: 55-58.
- 1937 ‘The birth and origin of Dto-mba Shi-lo, the founder of Mo-so shamanism” in Artibus Asiae. 7: 1-39, with Plates I-XV.
- 1937 “The Nichols Mo-so manuscript of the American Geographical Society” Geographical Review vol. 7.
- 1939 “The romance of K’a-ma-gyu-mi-gkyi’” Bulletin de l’Ecole Francaise d’Extreme-Orient, vol. xxxix,
- 1947 “The Ancient Na-khi Kingdom of S. W. China” . 2 vols. Harvard University Press.
- 1948 “The Muan-bpo ceremony or the sacrifice to heaven as practised by the Na-khi” Monumenta Serica, vol. xiii.
- 1952 “The Na-khi Naga Cult and related ceremonies” Serie Oriental Roma, iv. Parts I and II, Rome
- 1955 “The Zhi ma funeral ceremony of the Na-khi of S.W. China” Studia Instituti Anthropos. Vol. 9. St. Gabriel's Mission Press, Vienna- Modling.
- 1955 “The Na-khi D’a Nv funeral ceremony with special reference to the origin of Na-khi weapons” Anthropos 50.
- 1963 “The life and culture of the Na-khi tribe of the China-Tibet borderland” Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, Suppl. 2. Wiesbaden.
