Eastern World - Eastern Culture

Eastern Culture

Eastern culture has developed many themes and traditions. Some important ones are:

  • Eastern religion, Eastern philosophy
    • Far Eastern religions
      • Confucianism — (Not a religion) the belief that human beings are teachable, improvable and perfectible through personal and communal endeavour especially including self-cultivation and self-creation.
      • Far Eastern Buddhism
      • Shinto
      • Daoism
    • Indian religions
      • Buddhism — path of liberation attained through insight into the ultimate nature of reality
      • Hinduism — an umbrella term for religious sects native to India
      • Jainism
      • Sikhism — A religion that developed in the warring plains of Punjab in an atmosphere of ideological clash between Islam and Hinduism. Its followers retain spiritual as well as martial qualities.
    • West Asia, today largely coterminous with the Islamic world, and sometimes Israel to a lesser extent.
      • Judaism — an ethnic culture and religion originating with the Ancient Israelites/Hebrews in the Fertile Crescent, or what is now Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. Ashkenazi, Sephardi, and Mizrahi Jews are the descendants of these people. It is the majority religion in Israel.
      • Christianity - Originating in the Fertile Crescent, it is the world's largest religion. Coptic, Maronite, Catholicism, Orthodox are practiced sects. There are millions of Arab Christians & Assyrian Christians who's ancestors were the first to convert to Christianity.
      • Islam — the majority of the world Muslim population have always lived in Asia, due to Islam spreading and becoming the dominant religion of these areas.
      • Zoroastrianism, the monotheistic state religion of Sassanid Persia
  • Oriental medicine
    • Ayurveda
    • Chinese medicine
    • Kampo
    • Traditional Tibetan medicine
    • Traditional Korean Medicine

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