the.com/eastern religions
the west's lazy label for a billion different answers to the same question: why suffer.
means a catch-all western term for the vast, internally diverse religious and philosophical traditions originating in and around asia, from hinduism to shinto.
from coined by 19th-century european scholars sorting the world into us and them, lumping everything east of persia into one convenient shelf labeled mysterious.
no single founderhinduism has no single founder, unlike abrahamic faiths
reincarnation mathbuddhism denies a permanent self, yet still teaches rebirth
tao has no godtaoism runs fine with zero central deity required
confucius wasn't religiousconfucianism began as ethics, not worship