Religious syncretism in Asia

thumb|The Bon monastery of Nangzhik Gompa in Ngawa, [[Sichuan, China]]

syncretic religion propounded by Mughal emperor Akbar in 1582

thumb|Gautama Buddha in Greco-Buddhist style, 1st–2nd century AD, [[Gandhara (Peshawar basin, modern day Pakistan).]]

alt=|thumb|A Baul from Lalon|Lalon Shah's shrine in Kushtia, Bangladesh thumb|upright|Ektara, a common musical instrument of Bauls

Yiguandao / I-Kuan Tao (), meaning the Consistent Way or Persistent Way, is a Chinese salvationist religious sect that emerged in the late 19th century, in Shandong, to become China's most important redemptive society in the 1930s and 1940s, especially during the Japanese invasion. In the 1930s, Yiguandao spread rapidly throughout China led by Zhang Tianran, who is the eighteenth patriarch of the Latter Far East Tao Lineage, and Sun Suzhen, the first matriarch of the Lineage.

a new religion from Korea

Javanese art, culture, traditions, attitudes, rituals and philosophies.

Shabakism was the religious tradition of the Shabaks, a people native to the Nineveh Plains in Iraq. Shabakism was based on Ghulat, an extremist branch of Shia Islam, and had influences from other religions. Shabakism emerged during the 16th century and declined in the 20th century.

thumb|According to the Figurists, Noah's son [[Shem (here with Ham and Japheth) went to the Far East and brought with him the knowledge of Adam.]]

Allah Upanishad, or Allopanishad, is a book of uncertain origin written during Muslim rule in India during 15th to 16th century in the time of Mughal Emperor Akbar's reign.

Majma-ul-Bahrain (, "The Confluence of the Two Seas" or "The Mingling of the Two Oceans") is a Sufi text on comparative religion authored by Mughal Shahzada Dara Shukoh as a short treatise in Persian, c. 1655. It was devoted to a revelation of the mystical and pluralistic affinities between Sufic and Vedantic speculation. It was one of the earliest works to explore both the diversity of religions and a unity of Islam and Hinduism and other religions. Its Hindi version is called Samudra Sangam Grantha and an Urdu translation titled Nūr-i-Ain was lithographed in 1872.

religious group that originated in 20th-century Taiwan

monotheistic Hindu sect