The Dongba, Tomba or Tompa or Mo-so symbols are a system of pictographic glyphs used by the ²dto¹mba (Bon priests) of the Naxi people in southern China. In the Naxi language it is called ²ss ³dgyu 'wood records' or ²lv ³dgyu 'stone records'.[1] The first artifacts with this script on them originate from approximately 30 AD.[2]
The glyphs may be used as rebuses for abstract words which do not have glyphs. Dongba is largely a mnemonic system, and cannot by itself represent the Naxi language; different authors may use the same glyphs with different meanings, and it may be supplemented with the geba syllabary for clarification.
The logograms Naxi and Tomba in Naxi Dongba characters
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The Dongba, Tomba or Tompa or Mo-so symbols are a system of pictographic glyphs used by the ²dto¹mba (Bon priests) of the Naxi people in southern China...
culture, with Dongba priests serving as the primary transmitters of traditional Nakhi culture, literature and the pictographic Dongbasymbols. The priests...
most of the available symbols. Their use could also be extended via the rebus principle: for example, the pictorial Dongbasymbols without Geba annotation...
sets with smaller ones. Language portal Linguistics portal Dongbasymbols Emoji Logo Symbol Syllabogram Wingdings Rebus, the use of pictures to represent...
Maya script, Miꞌkmaw hieroglyphic writing, Dongbasymbols, as well as early Pagan and Christian signs and symbols. Toki Pona's word order is subject–verb–object...
proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of chữ Nôm, chữ Hán and chữ Quốc ngữ. The Sinosphere, also known...
and scriptures. The Dongba language is actually composed of 1,400 picture-like characters and symbols that are still used by Dongbas, researchers and artists...
it is sometimes used to annotate dongba pictographs. Geba's phonetics can vary depending on who is using it. Symbols do not have fixed phonetic values...
patriarchal Han Chinese culture. Nakhi culture is largely its own native Dongba religious, literary and farming practices, influenced by the Confucian roots...
tradition of pictographic symbols called dongba; this may sometimes be glossed with geba for clarification, since a dongba text may be intelligible only...
In East Asian culture, the Yellow Dragon is the fifth symbol completing the Sixiang (Four Symbols). This deity is the center of the cosmos and it represents...
Book Club focused on three types of pictographs (Liangzhu inscribed symbols, Dongba script and oracle bone script) associated with three cultures and three...
syllabic and logographic elements) Birch-bark glyphs – Anishinaabemowin Dongba – Naxi – Although this is often supplemented with syllabic Geba script....
[ŋua˥ze˧bo˦]; Chinese: 汪忍波/哇忍波) invented the Lisu syllabary from Chinese script, Dongba script and Geba script. However, it looks more different from the Chinese...
A Comparison of the Twenty-Eight Lunar Mansions Between Dabaism and Dongbaism. Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 3, 2: 61-81 (links: 1. academia...
Tibeto-Burman Loloish or Qiangic (?) Naic Naish Naxi Writing system Geba script or Dongba augmented with Geba, Latin script, Fraser script Simplified Chinese (Rare)...
Bimoism (Yi people) Bon (Tibetans) Burmese folk religion (Bamar people) Dongba (Nakhi from the foothills of the Himalayas) Donyi-Polo (Arunachali of northeastern...
magic and divination. Dongbaism (東巴教 Dōngbajiào, "religion of the eastern Ba") is the main religion of the Nakhi people. The "dongba" ("eastern ba") are...
catalogue these practices as "Taoist", because they use Taoist texts, symbols and icons, in fact they are called by different names [...] Such practice...
narratives, and mythologies, preserved in oral traditions, sacred texts, symbols, and holy places, that may attempt to explain the origin of life, the universe...
ancient period or if the term developed after Yungdrung Bon. Furthermore, the Dongba (东巴) practices of the Nakhi people and the Hangui (韩规) religion of the Pumi...
and Jainism. Similar symbols have also appeared in other cultures, such as in Celtic art and Roman shield markings. In this symbol the two teardrops swirl...
Mongols – Mongolian language – Mongolian alphabet The Naxi – Naxi language – Dongba characters The Qiang people – Qiang language or Rrmea language – Rma script...
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