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Finally, on 28 July 1852 he was sent to Tibet, where Christianity was still completely unknown. [14] His choice was motivated above all by his experience as a nurse. This part of the world suffers from diseases that require urgent and appropriate care.
The main religion in Tibet has been Buddhism since its introduction in the 8th century AD. As of 2022 [update] the historical region of Tibet (the areas inhabited by ethnic Tibetans ) mostly comprises the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) of China and partly the Chinese provinces of Qinghai , Sichuan , Gansu , and Yunnan .
However, Christian eschatology directly involves the concept of "end to all creation" at the Last Judgement when the world will reach its conclusion. [ 37 ] There are other fundamental incompatibilities, e.g. while grace is part of the very fabric of Christian theology, in Theravada Buddhism no deity can interfere with karma , and hence the ...
364 – Rome returns to Christianity, specifically the Arian Church; c. 364 – Vandals (Arian Church) 376 – Goths and Gepids (Arian Church) 380 – Rome goes from Arian to Catholic/Orthodox (both terms are used refer to the same Church until 1054) 411 – Kingdom of Burgundy (Nicene Church) c. 420 – Najran (Nicene Church) 448 – Suebi ...
Christian missionaries in Tibet (2 C) T. Translators of the Bible into Tibetan (2 P) Pages in category "Christianity in Tibet" The following 3 pages are in this ...
Full-scale persecution destroys the Christian community by the 1620s. Converts who did not reject Christianity were killed. Many Christians went underground, but their communities died out. Christianity left no permanent imprint on Japanese society. [141] 1598 – Spanish missionaries push north from Mexico into what is now the state of New Mexico.
A century later another Jesuit, the Italian Ippolito Desideri (1684–1733) was sent to Tibet and received permission to stay in Lhasa where he spent 5 years (1716–1721) living in a Tibetan monastery, studying the language, the religion of the lamas and other Tibetan customs. [5] He published a couple of books in Tibetan on Christian doctrine.
Hedins books and lectures about his expeditions made him a world-famous person in the years before the First World War. In 1898, a Canadian missionary medical doctor, Susie Rijnhart, and her husband and baby attempted to reach Lhasa from the north. The couple came to within one hundred miles of Lhasa before being turned back.