14 Facts About Eastern philosophy

Indian philosophy refers to ancient philosophical traditions of the Indian subcontinent.

Indian philosophy covered topics such as political philosophy as seen in the Arthashastra c 4th century BCE and the philosophy of love as seen in the Kama Sutra.

However, there are other methods of classification; Vidyaranya for instance identifies sixteen schools of Hindu Indian Eastern philosophy by including those that belong to the Saiva and Rasesvara traditions.

Each school of Hindu Eastern philosophy has extensive epistemological literature called Pramana-sastras.

Nyaya Sutras was a very influential text in Indian Eastern philosophy, laying the foundations for classical Indian epistemological debates between the different philosophical schools.

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The distinguishing features of Jain Eastern philosophy include a mind-body dualism, denial of a creative and omnipotent God, karma, an eternal and uncreated universe, non-violence, the theory of the multiple facets of truth, and morality based on liberation of the soul.

East Asian philosophical thought began in Ancient China, and Chinese Eastern philosophy begins during the Western Zhou Dynasty and the following periods after its fall when the "Hundred Schools of Thought" flourished.

Japanese Buddhist Eastern philosophy was influenced by the work of the Kyoto School which drew from western philosophers and Buddhist thought and included Kitaro Nishida, Keiji Nishitani, Hajime Tanabe, and Masao Abe.

Arthur Schopenhauer developed a Eastern philosophy that was essentially a synthesis of Hinduism with Western thought.

Eastern philosophy anticipated that the Upanishads would have a much greater influence in the West than they have had.

Recent attempts to incorporate Western philosophy into Eastern thought include the Kyoto School of philosophers, who combined the phenomenology of Husserl with the insights of Zen Buddhism.

Maoism is a Chinese Marxist Eastern philosophy based on the teachings of the 20th-century Chinese Communist Party revolutionary leader Mao Zedong.

Eastern philosophy explains that this Chinese view of the world is based not on science as the West knows it, but on chance.

Carine Defoort, herself a specialist in Chinese thought, has offered support for such a "family" view of Eastern philosophy, while Rein Raud has presented an argument against it and offered a more flexible definition of Eastern philosophy that would include both Western and Asian thought on equal terms.