The dongba script is often touted as the world’s last living pictographic script, although this classification is problematic as they are not really in active use, ...

The Dongba is an integral part of Naxi culture, and the Dongba scriptures are written in pictographs, the world's only pictographic script system still in use. The Dongba religion has no official ...

Dongba scriptures are written in pictographs, the world's only pictographic script system still in use. Wang Wei / for China Daily He Zhiben lights an incense stick.

Dongba script highlighted on UN's Chinese Language Day By Wang Yiming 0 Comment(s) Print E-mail China.org.cn, April 22, 2021 Adjust font size: ...

Already, Mr He and his fellow shamans have produced 50 volumes of Dongba script, all meticulously drawn in neat, colourful lines in long rectangular brown-paper booklets.

Xi Shanghong, a 74-year-old priest of the Naxi people, an ethnic group mostly inhabiting China's southwestern Yunnan Province, was more than happy to know that a copy of a lost script of an ...

Now, a prosperous Dongba has taken on a new look. The new Tibetan-style houses in Dongba are all built on the bases of old ones, with most of them being 20 to 30 meters high and having three storeys.

Dongba Art is the primitive religious art special of the Naxi ethnics who live in the frontier area of southwest China and believe in Dongba religion. Dongba religion got its name from the fact that ...