China nor India experienced such dramatic religious change and tensions like the Protestant Reformation in Europe nor did Confucian or Hindu cultures during the early modern era spread widely, as did Christianity and Islam. The similarities of the Asian cultural changes and the European were that Wang Mingyang for Confucianism and some Buddhism and Martin Luther with enlightenment both had similar views of life and how it should be lived. Wang argued that truth and moral knowledge were innate to the human person. He also says: “Thus anyone could achieve a virtuous life by introspection and contemplation, without the extended education, study of the classical texts, and constant striving for improvement that traditional Confucianism prescribed
