Mona Schrempf (2002), „chapter 6 - The Earth-Ox and Snowlion”, Ур.: Toni Huber, Amdo Tibetans in Transition: Society and Culture in the Post-Mao Era, Brill, стр. 164, ISBN9004125965, „During the Persian New Year of Newruz, a lion dance used to be performed by young boys, some of the naked it seems, who were sprinkled with cold water. They were thus supposed to drive out evil forces and the cold of the winter.”
