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- Bonpo Thangkas From Rebkong Bon Studies 13
- Bonpo Thangkas From Khyungpo Bon Studies 10
- Mandalas of the Bon Religion. Bon Studies #1
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- A Bonpo Painting of Protector Deities
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Bon Art (Himalayan Region, Tibet, Nepal):

The Arrow and the Spindle. Studies in History, Myths, Rituals and Beliefs in Tibet. Samten S. Karmay. Mandala Book Point, 1998. (See page 257 for a painting of Verna Nyina at the Musee Guimet, Paris, and compare with a similar painting in subject and style).

Bon: The Magic Word. The Indigenous Religion of Tibet. Samten G. Karmay & Jeff Watt, editors. Rubin Museum of Art. New York 2007.

The Bon Deities Depicted in the Wall Paintings in the Bon-brgya Monastery. M.Mori. New Horizons in Bon Studies, Bon Studies 2. Edited by Samten G. Karmay and Yasuhiko Nagano. National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka 2000.

The Bon Religion of Tibet: the Iconography of a Living Tradition. Per Kvaerne. Serindia Publications, London, 1995.

Bon, Tibet's Ancient Religion. Christoph Baumer. Weatherhill Publications, 2002 (German publication 1999).

A Bonpo Painting of Protector Deities. Samten G. Karmay. Vajra Books. Kathmandu, 2015.

Bonpo Thangkas From Rebkong. Bon Studies 13, Senri Ethnological Reports 95. Edited by Bon brgya dge legs lhun grub rgya mtsho, Shin'ichi Tsumagari, Musashi Tachikawa, Yasuhiko Nagano. National Museum of Ethnology 2011 Osaka.

Bonpo Thangkas From Khyungpo Bon Studies 10, Senri Ethnological Reports 60. Edited by Tenpa Yungdrung, Per Kvaerne, Musashi Tachikawa, Yasuhiko Nagano. National Museum of Ethnology 2011 Osaka.

Tibet: Bon Religion. A Death Ritual of the Tibetan Bonpos. Per Kvaerne. Institute of Religious Iconography, State University Groningen. Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1985.

Drung, Deu and Bon. Narratives, Symbolic Languages and the Bon Tradition in Ancient Tibet. Namkhai Norbu. Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 1995.

The Little Luminous Boy. Samten S. Karmay. White Orchid Books, Orchid Press, Bangkok, 1998.

Mandalas of the Bon Religion. Bon Studies #1. Lobpon Tenzin Namdak, Nagano and Tachikawa (eds.). National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, 2000.

New Horizons in Bon Studies (Bon Studies 2), Edited by Samten G. Karmay and Yasuhiko Nagano. National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka 2000.

The Nine Ways of Bon. Excerpts from Gzi-brjid Edited and Translated by David Snellgrove. Prajñâ Press, Boulder, 1980.

'Ol-mo-lung-ring, the Original Holy Place. Dan Martin. (Sacred Spaces and Powerful Places In Tibetan Culture: A Collection of Essays. Edited by Toni Huber. Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 1999). (See a painting of Olmo Lungring).

Jeff Watt 4-2007 [updated 1-2018]