To convert them into their religion. And trade.
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Jesuits are not monks, so there are no Jesuit monks. The Jesuit who was famous for his missionary work was St. Francis Xavier, see the article below:
Neither Franciscans or Jesuits are monks.
No. But legend has it that when Bodhidharma came to China in 517 CE he found the monks too weak to participate in meditation. He instructed them in excerxizes that later became Kung Fu.
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no they live in China
In a way. The shaolin temple in china trained the monks living there. Hence they were the shaolin monks not the Buddhist monks. While they both believed in peace and not fighting they were not the same religion.
Matteo Ricci was a member of the Society of Jesus and a Jesuit priest. He was so impressed with theology and missionaries that he was a founder of the Jesuit China Mission.
Shaolin monks are still around today. if you go to the shaolin monastery in china then you'll see that there are plenty of monks.
French Jesuit missionary Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet explored the Illinois River in 1673.