Religion -- Language -- Confucian -- Defining religion : the Confucian response -- The religious dimensions of Confucianism -- The self as a center of relationships -- Learning to be human -- Lasting influence of Confucianism in modern East Asia -- Taoist -- What is Taoism? -- Philosophical Taoism -- Temporal dimensions of yin-yang cosmology -- Spatial dimensions of yin-yang cosmology -- Personal dimensions of yin-yang cosmology -- Taoism as a global religious phenomenon -- Hindu -- What is hinduism -- Karma-marga -- J�nna-Marga -- Bhakti-Marga -- Hinduism in the modern world -- Theravada -- Buddhism and the Buddha -- Suffering and its causes -- Buddhist ethics -- The fruits of meditation -- Monastic practice -- Mahayana -- Faith -- Principles of zen Buddhism -- Buddhism as a global religion -- Japanese -- Japanese religion and culture -- Shrine Shinto: dimensions of sacred time and space in Japan -- Dimensions of religion in modern Japan.