Multi-religions Coexistence And Dialogue On Tibetan And Han People Adjoining Region

Religious dialogue theory which has been one of the most popular religious theories and accepted by all the main religions in the world originated from the exploration of compromise among Christian sects. On the research of religious dialogue theory, Chinese academia is on the stage of importation and assimilation, and making great efforts to construct religious dialogue theory system with Chinese features. Applying the theory, the thesis studies the mode of religious dialogue on Tibetan and Han people Adjoining Region.Based upon the field work on Zhouqu of Western Gansu Corridor, the thesis probes the conflicts and dialogues between Tibetan and Han people who are as worshippers of Bon-pa, Tibetan Buddhism, folk beliefs and Christianity. It presents the process of Tibetan and Han people transformation to hybrid worshippers, and the course of multiethnic fusion. It also summarizes the local religious knowledge and the mode of religious dialogue on Tibetan and Han people Adjoining Region.Bon-pa, Tibetan Buddhism and folk beliefs are the conventional religions of the Tibetan and Han people on Zhouqu Area. In the past, folk beliefs that played the role of uniting Han people immigrate and fighting against Tibetan to get resources was opposed to Bon-pa and Tibetan Buddhism. The phenomenon is most conspicuous in Ming Dynasty. Till the early days of the Qing Dynasty, along with the second Han people immigration and Sang-fan headmen's submission, Tibetan and Han people lived together, therefore the two sides reached an accommodation finally. During the period, Bon-pa became dependent on Tibetan Buddhism; Tibetan Buddhism and folk beliefs brought into equilibrium; Tibetan and Han people gradually became hybrid worshippers, and in virtue of intermarriage, to a great extent the two ethnics have blended together. Christianity's spread to Zhouqu since the 1920s has broken the balance and conflicts have increased. After the Great Cultural Revolution, many Tibetan Buddhist monasteries didn't recover in time, thus folk beliefs locations became religious centre. Bon-pa, Tibetan Buddhism and folk beliefs commonly constructed an equilibrium mode in the shape of inverted triangle, which excludes Christianity and plays the role of maintaining local social stability. In recent years, even if the religious structure has changed a bit, the local religious and ethnics relationships remain stable. Using phenomenology of religion, the thesis analyses the religious rituals in Zhouqu Area and discriminates the holy and secular space-time. The thesis believes that the consecration connects the holy and secular order, which is the stage of dialogue, communication and representing local culture. Through the analysis of stratification of divine divinity, the thesis suggests the relationship among deities reflects the relationship among ethnic groups.The conflicts between Tibetan and Han people during Ming and Qing Dynasty represent the religious knowledge differences, especially mirror on the ecological view and existing culture, which belongs to the realm of ecological theology. Tibetan created the existing culture putting Bon-pa at the center that focuses on the forest's circulating and supplementing institution. Meanwhile, Han people existing culture focuses on human being itself. Through a long mutual accommodation period, Han people finally accept the former's existing culture and ecological view.In the perspective of anthropology and religious dialogue theory, the thesis summarizes the mode of religious dialogue on Zhouqu Area. The historical facts have proven that the mode of religious metathesis does not adapt to the Zhouqu's concrete situation, instead the mode of religious benefit suits. However, the mode does not always take effect in the peaceful circumstances but accompanying with religious conflicts. And enforcing it through folk powers, conflicts become one of the necessary patterns to fulfill the mode of mutual benefit.