Eastern religions
The Eastern religions are the religions which originated in East, South and Southeast Asia and thus have dissimilarities with Western, African and Iranian religions.[1] This includes the East Asian religions such as Confucianism, Taoism, Chinese folk religion, Shinto, and Korean Shamanism; Indian religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism; and Southeast Asian religions such as Vietnamese folk religion as well as animistic indigenous religions.[2][3]
This East-West religious distinction, just as with the East-West culture distinction, and the implications that arise from it, is broad and not precise. Furthermore, the geographical distinction has less meaning in the current context of global transculturation.
While many Western observers attempt to distinguish between Eastern philosophies and religions, this is a distinction that does not exist in some Eastern traditions.[4]
Mongolian shamanism
Tengrism
Korean shamanism
Ainu religion
Ko-Shintō
Turkic Shamanism
Chan Buddhism
Chinese salvationist religions
Xiantiandao
Falun Gong
Luoism
Wang Hao-te
Yao folk religion
Comparative religion
Eastern culture
Folk religion
Tengrism
Historical Vedic religion
Zoroastrianism
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