Introduction
The Orient is an essential part of Western culture and civilization. Orientalism demonstrated and implied its essence ideologically and culturally through different ways in colonial techniques, colonial governments, policies, imagery, scholarship, terminologies and sustaining organizations. However, interpretations of America towards the Orient is rather less dense even if a more abstemious and more pragmatic consciousness regarding the “Oriental” was brought by some recent Indochinese, Korean and Japanese explorations. Furthermore, the immensely extended American economic and political function in the Middle East constructs enormous assertions on Oriental understanding.
This paper tackles Orientalism about Asian religion using the western viewpoint. The
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