摘要
It was over 150 years ago that two French Catholic missionaries endured the harsh landscapes around Xining in western China's Qinghai Province, probing new forms of enlightenment. Katharin Tai traces their path to the Gelug Buddhist sect.
On the trail of the Catholic missionaries who sought Buddhist enlightenment跟随19世纪法国传教士的游记,踏上一段辗转的青海之旅When two Catholic missionaries from France passed through what is now China’s Qinghai Province in 1845,their impression was anything but favorable:'The county of Amdo is sad and savage.The eye doesn’t fall upon anything but red and yellow mountains,nearly without any vegetation,furrowed by deep,dry channels.'They probably came through this dusty county during winter,
