To Miko
I think there is one big difference between asian spirituality and western one.
The concept of god(s)
In asian spirituality actions do have consequences but on you, while in western spirituality there is a second player, one or more gods who are interefering.
Especially animism has celestial players but they are not as omnipotent as the western idea of the same.
So in asian cultures it is more an "natural law" that if you do bad things it comes back to yourself, there is not as much an personified force behind it.

For my opinion better in the long run, it does not so much allow religious leaders to go on powertrips as in the west.