Chapter 826: East Asian Sects and Philosophies
The Chinese Civil War had brought new escalations int the warring Warlord Area of China, lead to the rise of various religious end-times groups and sects that rivaled the old religious or mixed ideas and ideologies of them, including those that were supported by the Coprospist governments for supporting them and actively promoted by them. Sometimes this happened because they were oppressed and outlawed by the Chinese Communist Party, or the Kuomintang under Chiang, siding with their enemies, sometimes this happened because their leaders hoped for power and sometimes because doing so made things easier for the local governments of the Co-Prosperity Sphere and the Japanese Empire. This included the
Nidao, or Yadao, a national religious sect of Buddhist and Shintoist elements that believed that the Japanese were god's truly chosen people, much like Judaism and that Japanese should lead and rule all other Asians and the world because of that as it was their destiny. A radical, small sect spreading in parts of the Japanese High Command and among it's Admirals and Generals, but never gained widespread following, not even among Japanese forces. More Buddhist influenced groups included the so called
Akaiana,
Rōtasu,
Sakurana and
Horimonku who mixed Buddhist ideas with some local shamanism and religions, nationalism and coprospism. In Manchruia, Yankoku, Han China, Taikoku and Yikoku; the
Jiàndao,
Rìchūdao,
Qízhìdao,
Xīnzhìdao,
Báitàiyángdao,
Tàiyángdao and
Qīngtīan dao. These groups mainly mixed Chinese shamanism, naturalism and traditional religions with Buddhism and Coprospism to support the new political and religious ideology. There were even some Taoist groups, especially in Nationalist Han China, like the
Taodao that gained a growing following. Other groups included
Mặttrời a Vietnamese influenced sect, the Siamese
Dwngxāthity̒k̄hụ̂n, the Buddhist Nayhtwatlar, or the Indian Buddhist and Hindi influenced
Ugatahuasooraj. More completely Hindu/ Hindi influenced national coprospist sects were
Vaiśravaṇaji while the Mengjiang and Tibetan
Jambhalana were Buddhist-Shinto influenced.
The
Zandakashikata in Japan, the
Pínghéngmaarg or
Jūnhéngdao in Chinese Coprospist States, the
Cânbằngđường in Vietnam, the
S̄mdulthāng in Siam, the
Myahatasawlam in Burma and the
Tentsvertei Argazam in Mengjiang were all local groups of the so called Balanced Way, or Balanced Path, aslo knwon as the Cult of Ying and Yang that took parts of the Coprospist Ideology and Religious aspects, beliving in a balanced approach to life and the universe. According to them the time of American-European Dominance in the world was ending and the Asian Century of Millenia beginnang as the pendle had retruend to Asia with the industrialisation of Japan and then the rest of East Asia in the Co-Prosperity Sphere. It's Philippine braunch, the
Balanseng Paraan would remain less influential untill the 1980ies, because the Coprospist Independent Church (officially Spanish: Iglesia Filipina Independiente, IFI; colloquially known as the Aglipayan Church of Gregorio Aglipay) and the Anito/ Anitu (also known as Philipine Shamanism, or Philippine Shinto) dominate the Philippines. The
Tumataas Araw, it's Philippino braunch, promoted the spread of Shintoism and Buddhims in the Philippines in it's own sect mix, but also supported other Shinto and Buddhist groups, as did the
Matahari Terbit, the Sumatran, Borneo, Java, Sulawesi, Moluccan, Timorese, Javan and Papuan braunch meanwhile encouraged the spread of Shintoism and Buddhism in Southeast Asia. Some minor Christian Sects included the the
Hongxiuquandao,
Yēsūdao,
Tiānguódao as well as
Jīdūdao, who promoted christian influenced politics, ideals and coprospism mainly in the Chinese Mainland and member states, but partly also in Southeast Asia. A few local branches of Mohamemdanism, like in Benghal, Borneo, Sumatra and Java, tried to incorporate the Mohammedan religion with Buddhist or Shinto elements, or even just use a Mohammedan form of Corpospism, as promoted by the
Airtifae Shams, who claimed Japan would liberate all Mohammedan Nationalities in independent states, just like it had done with a few in Asia already. Later some of this sects and cults would spread to Europe, Africa and even the Americas.