Stable harmonic maps between Finsler manifolds and Riemannian manifolds with positive Ricci curvature

We study the stability of harmonic maps between Finsler manifolds and Riemannian manifolds with positive Ricci curvature, and we prove that if M-n is a compact Einstein Riemannian minimal submanifold of a Riemannian unit sphere with Ricci curvature satisfying Ric(M) > n/2, then there is no non-degenerate stable harmonic map between M and any compact Finsler manifold.