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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 ) is mostly comprised in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) of China and partly in the Chinese provinces of Qinghai and Sichuan .
The Catholic Church is a minority religious organization in Tibet, where Tibetan Buddhism is the faith of the majority of people. Its origin dates from the 17th century, when António de Andrade, a Portuguese Jesuit through Jesuit missions in Tibet [], introduced Catholicism into the Kingdom of Guge in western Tibet.
First European to cross the Himalayas and reach Tibet. António de Andrade ( Tibetan : ཨང་ཋོ་ནཱི་་དྷུ་་ཨང་དྷུ་ཝ་དྷུ། ; 1580 – March 19, 1634), also known as António d'Andrade or Andrada , was a Jesuit priest and explorer from Portugal . [ 1 ]
While the Tibetan plateau has been inhabited since pre-historic times, most of Tibet's history went unrecorded until the creation of Tibetan script in the 7th century. . Tibetan texts refer to the kingdom of Zhangzhung (c. 500 BCE – 625 CE) as the precursor of later Tibetan kingdoms and the originators of the Bon re
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 ...
Arrival of Austrians Heinrich Harrer and Peter Aufschnaiter in Tibet. They reach Lhasa in January 1946. 1947: Indian independence and end of the British Tibet Policy. 1950: 6 to 19 October Battle of Chamdo. 1951: Arrival of the People's Liberation Army in Lhasa following an agreement for liberation with the Central People's Government. 1954
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.
After World War II, Christian missionaries played a transformative role in many colonial societies, moving them toward independence through decolonization. [653] [654] In the mid to late 1990s, postcolonial theology emerged globally from multiple sources. [655]