Outline Of East Asian Religions

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to East Asian Religions.

The East Asian religions or Taoic religions form a subset of the Eastern religions. This group includes Chinese religion overall, which further includes ancestral worship, Chinese folk religion, Confucianism, Taoism and so-called popular salvationist organisations (such as Yiguandao and Weixinism) as well as elements drawn from Mahayana Buddhism that form the core of Chinese Buddhism and East Asian Buddhism at large. The group also includes Japanese Shintoism and Korean Sindoism (both meaning “Ways of Gods” and identifying the indigenous shamanic religion and ancestor worship of such peoples), which have received influences from Chinese religions throughout the centuries. Chinese salvationist religions have influenced the rise of Korean and Japanese new religions—for instance, respectively, Jeungsanism, and Tenriism; these movements draw upon indigenous traditions but are heavily influenced by Chinese philosophy and theology.

All these religious traditions, more or less, share core Chinese concepts of spirituality, divinity and world order, including Tao 道 (“Way”; pinyin dào, Japanese  or , and Korean do) and Tian 天 (“Heaven”; Japanese ten, and Korean cheon).

Chinese Architecture Chinese Decoration

Chinese Architecture

Common Concepts in East Asian Religions

Chinese Characters Fortune Prayer Temple China

Chinese prayers

Known East Asian Religions

Confucianism

Taoism

Daoism
Taoism Explained

Shinto

Shinto-inspired religions

Other Religions

Chinese religions

Chinese philosophy schools

Japanese religions

Korean religions

Mongolian religions

Vietnamese religions

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