The Spread Of Catholicism In Tibetan Areas In Modem Times

At the beginning of the 17 th century AD, the Roman Catholic missionaries of Jesus and Capucinorum will successively into the missionaries who hid, but was strongly opposed to force the missionary activities of the broad masses character, be terminated.After unable to realize the Tibetan centre for missionary, missionaries find another way to Tibet, in exploring many times chose from the edge of the Tibetan of KangBa, by Catholic Pope ordered the foreign missionaries in Paris in 1846 set up several missionary in KangBa points are reflected. Center of DiQing, YunNan county in this paper, the church is under this historical background established by the foreign missionaries in Paris, France’s one of important point of missionary, and in the process of historical evolution and the local cultural conflict and integration, formed the local characteristics of a kind of religious culture, and still plays an important role.Since the 1860 s, the Catholic church in Paris the foreign missionaries in DiQing, since god coexists with the local Tibetan Buddhism today. This paper USES the research methods of historical anthropology, explore and examine the Catholic was introduced into village in DiQing, historical context and its activities. On the one hand, to understand western colonial powers covet intention and extension of Tibetan areas surrounding the conflict between Catholicism and Tibetan Buddhism, and many times of "lesson plans" reflects the spirit of Tibetan people’s struggle against the western colonial power. On the other hand, analyze the process of Catholic gradually into the local culture, the local Tibetan villagers of the impact of cultural life, etc. At the same time objectively analyze the Catholic was introduced into the Chinese and western cultural exchanges play a positive role.In, the Catholic was introduced into the history and culture of study, the author thinks that after one hundred years of running-in, the Catholic church has by foreign religion, the history of evolution as a branch of the local religious belief systems, can be called a localized Catholic. With harmonious coexist, Tibetan Buddhism and can be called a localized Catholic.Edge of the region culture in Tibet for studying and understanding the evolution of modern history, the composition of the Tibetan culture has multiple meanings.