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The English Wikipedia article on Dongba, the ritual tradition and pictographic script of the Naxi people, covering the dongba priesthood's own origin account naming a Bon shaman, Dongba Shilo, and the large scholarly translation project covering the surviving Dongba manuscripts.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongba
Source Type
encyclopedia
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3
A crowd edited encyclopedia. Used here for its summary of the dongba priesthood's Bon shaman origin account and for the scale of the modern scholarly translation project covering the Dongba manuscripts, and not treated as a primary or scholarly source in its own right.
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