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Dongba Painting is a kind of long scroll paintings used for funeral and "releasing the souls of the departed" rituals in the Dongba religion of the Naxi people. It describe a long journey on which the souls of the departed have to be tortured in every possible way in hell, before being reincarnated as a man again, and finally joining the world of gods and the 33 storeys of heaven. The kind of painting by academic circles from home and abroad. During the ritual, the Dongba flamen spread the painting and chant the words of the scripture entitled standing beside it in order to release the souls of the departed. This [during the Qing dynasty] is kept at the Lijiang Dongba Cultural Museum(麗江東巴文化博物館). It is 14.35 meters long and 0.34 meters wide, painted on white cotton cloth treated with starch. More than 410 demons, deities, Dongba specialists and over 100 varied images of animals can be found in this painting, It show peoples a mysteriousworld of demons and deities, it could therefore be regarded as a great work of ancient religious culture. An another painting [during the Qing dynasty] is also a kind of long scroll paintings used for funeral and is kept at Harvard University Yanjing Library. Through this study we could find the scroll painting of Lijiang Dongba Cultural Museum is more beautiful and have more ancient Dongba painting tradition than the painting scroll of Harvard University Yanjing Library. There are many myths. cosmos universal views, life culture and Donga culture of Naxi trive in the scroll painting . oviparity story,tree production story and mother production story is producted in the three universal culture. In Dongba painting there are multi-origin tradition for example Tibetan Buddism. Bon Religion and Daoism. Various facts including Garuda and white elephant of Dongba scroll painting show us it have many Bon religion tradition. In near future, the relationship of between Dongba religion and Bon religion will be searched with more detail and certainty.