Directory 83 of 2,710 traditions
Traditions — East Asian traditions
The traditions filed under East Asian traditions.
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Traditions in East Asian traditions
China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam and the diaspora, roughly 1200 BCE to the present.
83 traditions
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Ordered by how many Wikipedias have an article on each — a measure of how widely a subject is written about, not of its importance to any tradition.
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Taoism Religious or philosophical tradition of Chinese origin -
Confucianism Chinese ethical and philosophical system -
Shinto A polytheistic and animistic religion originating in Japan -
Chinese folk religion Traditional Han Chinese religious belief systems -
Cheondoism 20th-century Korean pantheistic religion, based on the 19th-century Donghak religious movement founded by Choe Je-u and codified under Son Byong-hi -
Korean shamanism Folk religion of the Korean Peninsula -
White Lotus Religious and political movement -
Quanzhen School School of Taoism founded by Wang Chongyang in 12th century Shandong during the Jin dynasty -
Onmyōdō Traditional Japanese esoteric cosmology and divination based on the Chinese philosophies of wuxing and yin and yang, introduced into Japan at the beginning of the 6th century -
Buddhist traditions shinbutsu-shūgō Japanese syncretism of Shinto and Buddhism - Huang-Lao Influential Chinese school of thought in the early 2nd-century BCE Han dynasty
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Buddhist traditions Shugendō Japanese religious tradition blending elements of Shinto and Buddhism (Shingon, Tendai) originating in the 7th century, said to be founded by En no Gyōja
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Taoist philosophy School of thought in China
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State Shinto Official religion of the Japanese Empire, emphasizing the divinity of the Japanese emperor
- Way of the Five Pecks of Rice Chinese Taoist movement founded in 142 CE
- Xuanxue Post-classical Chinese philosophy bringing together Daoist and Confucian beliefs
- Shangqing School Taoist movement from Jin dynasty China based on scriptures revealed to Wei Huacun (251–334) and Yang Xi (330–c. 386)
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Konkokyo Religion of Japanese origin originating in Shinbutsu-shūgō beliefs - Qingtan Movement related to Taoism that developed during the Wei-Jin (魏晉) period and continued on through the Southern and Northern dynasties
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Tiandihui Chinese secret society formed during the reign of Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty
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Lingbao School Daoist school that emerged in China in between the Jin Dynasty and the Liu Song Dynasty in the early fifth century CE; lasted for about two hundred years until it was absorbed into the Shangqing and Zhengyi currents during the Tang Dynasty - Sect Shinto Shinto sects distinguished from Shrine Shinto
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Zhengyi Dao School of Taoism -
Weixinism Chinese salvationist religion -
koshintō Original animism of Japan which is the alleged basis of modern Shinto - Way of the Celestial Masters Religious school of Taoism
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Xuanyuandao Confucian folk religion founded in Taiwan in 1952 -
Nuoism Indigenous Chinese religion - Taiping Taoism Taoist movement founded by Zhang Jue during the Eastern Han Dynasty, participating in the Yellow Turban Rebellion of 184; after the rebellion's suppression, the movement died soon afterwards
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Daejonggyo Religious movements within Korean shamanism -
Fukko Shinto Shinto movement -
Luoism Chinese folk religious tradition founded by Luo Menghong (1443-1527) -
Tiandism Group of Chinese folk religions - Yellow Sand Society Rural secret society and folk religious sect in northern China during the 19th and 20th century
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Kurozumikyō Japanese new religion largely derived from Shinto roots - Lao–Zhuang school School of philosophical Taoism
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religious Confucianism Ethical and philosophical doctrine of Chinese civilization as a system of beliefs in the supernatural
- Yoshida Shintō A prominent sect of Shintō that arose during the Sengoku period
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Baguaism Chinese folk religious tradition of northern China - Confucian Shinto Syncretic religious tradition combining elements of Confucianism and Shinto
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Izumo-taishakyo Japanese Shinto grouping -
Ong Yah worship Fujianese and Taiwanese folk religion, frequently considered an aspect of Taoism
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Sanyiism Chinese folk religious tradition of Fujian, founded in the 16th century by Lin Zhao'en - Shrine Shinto Mainstream non-doctrinal Shinto
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Way of the Gods according to the Confucian Tradition A Confucian congregational religious movement -
Yao Taoism Ethnic religion of the Yao people in China, heavily based on Taoism since the 13th century, similar to the communitarian Taoism in the earliest Taoist movements in China proper
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Zhao Gongming God of wealth in Chinese folk religion - Chongxuan School Taoist philosophical current
- Dragon Gate Taoism Sect incorporating Buddhism and Confucianism
- Jingming Taoism Chinese Daoist school influential during the Yuan and Ming dynasties in Jiangnan, incorporating aspects of Confucianism and Buddhism
- Maoshan School
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officer of Yin and Yang Taoist deity - Ontakekyo Japanese Shintoist grouping
- Buddhist traditions Ryōbu Shintō Japanese religious syncretism that blends Shintō with Shingon Buddhism
- Suika Shinto
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Universal Church of the Way and its Virtue A Confucian-Taoism religious movement in northeast China - Wuliupai School of Taoism with main focus on internal alchemy
- Dacheng Jiao of Mount Jizu
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De religion - Huangtiandao Chinese folk religion
- Buddhist traditions Sannō Shintō Syncretic Shinto group
- Tē-ki-tsú Taiwanese folk religion of tutelary spirits of houses and buildings
- Tenjin faith
- The Northern Celestial Masters Daoist movement that existed in the north of China during the Southern and Northern Dynasties
- Tianxian miaodao Chinese salvationist religious sect
- Yamakage Shinto Shinto religious movement
- Zhenda Daojiao 12th-century Taoist school in China
- Church of the Highest Supreme Chinese folk religious sect
- Hai Tze Tao Taoist new religious movement in Taiwan
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Buddhist traditions Hakusan cult - Heaven worship
- Ise Shintō
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Kunyi Temple -
Lushan School School of Taoism -
Maruyamakyō Japanese religion derived from Shinto
- Mononobe Shinto
- Qingwei School School of Taoism that focused on thunder rituals (leifa) founded in Fujian in the 13th century
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Sasindang shaman’s shrines and plaques Korean cultural heritage item -
Tamamitsu Shrine Neo-Shinto shrine and religious organization -
Taoism in Malaysia -
ukehi between Amaterasu and Susanoo - Way of the Li Family Daoist sect
- Yoshikawa Shintō
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East Asian traditions
Daoism, Confucian practice, Chinese folk religion, Shinto and Korean tradition.