what is the religions of southern asian?

Answer 1

i would believe that asians are buddhist of some sort considering that is where martial arts comes from.

Answer 2

The ancient religions of the regions of south Asia are -

1. Hinduism -It is not easy to define Hinduism, for it is more than a religion in the Western sense, as our Ancient History Guide sees it. Also known to practitioners as Sanatana Dharma, which means everlasting or eternal religion/truth/rule, Hinduism can best be defined as a way of life based on the teachings of ancient sages and scriptures like the Vedas and the Upanishads. The word dharma connotes "that which supports the universe" and effectively means any path of spiritual discipline which leads to God.
Hindu Dharma, as one scholar analogizes, can be compared to a fruit tree , with its roots representing the Vedas and the Upanishads, the thick trunk symbolizing the spiritual experiences of numerous sages and saints, its branches representing various theological traditions, and the fruit itself, in different shapes and sizes, symbolizing various sects and subsects. However, the concept of Hinduism defies a definite definition because of its uniqueness.

2. Buddhism - The teachings of Gautama the Buddha. Buddhism today is divided into two branches, the Northern and the Southern. The Southern still retains the teachings of the "Buddha's brain," the "eye doctrine," that is to say his outer philosophy for the general world, sometimes inadequately called the doctrine of forms and ceremonies. The Northern still retains his "heart doctrine" - that which is hid, the inner life, the heart-blood, of the religion: the doctrine of the inner heart of the teaching.



The religious philosophy of the Buddha-Sakyamuni is incomparably nearer to the ancient wisdom, the esoteric philosophy of the archaic ages, than is Christianity. Its main fault today is that teachers later than the Buddha himself carried its doctrines too far along merely formal or exoteric lines; yet, with all that, to this day it remains the purest and holiest of the exoteric religions on earth, and its teachings even exoterically are true - once they are properly understood. They need but the esoteric key in interpretation of them. As a matter of fact, the same may be said of all the great ancient world religions. Christianity, Brahmanism, Taoism, and others all have the same esoteric wisdom behind the outward veil of the exoteric formal faith.

Other Big religions - Islam and Christianity developed after invation of Mughals and british, but there origin was not of from South Asia.

Apart from the above there are many more religions in in this reagion.

Answer 3

Buddhist, Hindu, Jainism, Islam, Christianity, Zorastrian, Christianity, Judaism, and tribal religions.

Answer 4

Islam, Hinduism, Christianity, Buddhism

Answer 5

Hinduism and sister religions ( Bhuddism,JAinism, sikhism)(70%)
Islam26%
christianity 4% in close to 1.5 billion population .

Answer 6

Buddhism, Ancestral or Islam

Christianity was there first but Christianity seem to only open prostitution markets

Answer 7

Actually many people in Asia are animists of one sort or another, that and ancestor worship, though tis often dressed up as Buhdism.

Answer 8

Buddhist, Muslims and Hindu.

Answer 9

All kind of religions.! I think

Answer 10

hindo..islam..and budhism..and may some other religion which are near eachother but the number is alot