HISTORY
CIVILIZATIONS OF ASIA
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Buddhism
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Daoism
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Hinduism
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Confucianism
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Detailed explanation-1: -Spreading from India to Central and Southeast Asia, China, Korea, and Japan, Buddhism has played a central role in the spiritual, cultural, and social life of Asia, and, beginning in the 20th century, it spread to the West.
Detailed explanation-2: -Buddhism spread from India into northern Asia, Mongolia, and China, whilst Christianity and Islam emerged and were disseminated by trade, pilgrims, and military conquest.
Detailed explanation-3: -Hinduism is the world’s oldest religion, according to many scholars, with roots and customs dating back more than 4, 000 years. Today, with about 900 million followers, Hinduism is the third-largest religion behind Christianity and Islam. Roughly 95 percent of the world’s Hindus live in India.
Detailed explanation-4: -Confucianism became the most influential philosophy in China, and its ideas spread to Korea and Japan, where they also had significant influence.
Detailed explanation-5: -Confucianism. Like Buddhism, Confucianism also entered Japan from Korea and China. The tradition was founded in China by Confucius (551-479 B.C.E), whose teachings were passed on to posterity by his disciples in the Analects or Sayings of Confucius.