1. In India it is the doctrine of salvation. The Mimamsa did not have this theory first but its influence was so strong that it had to adopt it. The Mimamsa of Dharma as action prescribed by the Vedas became the doctrine of karmayoga, or the yoga of action leading up to salvation, elaborated by the Holy Gita.
The idea of salvation is alien to Chinese thought. It believes that the best and happiest kind of existence is in earth and all that the Chinese want is to be a complete man. China has changed from Confucianism to Marxism. Both are humanistic and concerned with social institutions.
2.Chinese philosophy is one of manners and etiquette.
But if we want a philosophy of the atman, spirit, it is found in the Indian than in the Chinese.
3.In Indian philosophy, religious thought always insisted on the experiential and existential nature of the object of religion, because of which it is called mysticism. In simple language, direct experience is one of the essence of our philosophy.
In China we find little dogmatics and theology, there is no insistence of faith, no prevention of reason entering any field it can.
4.One topic that distinguishes Indian philosophy from the Chinese and the western is that of the Atman. Almost the whole of Indian philosophy is atman centric. Most of the Buddhist schools denied the reality of the atman, but they substituted it with Sunya and Nirvana. So much inward interest is not found any where. In China, Mencius started the doctrine that the universe is within mind but this mind is the ordinary mind of the sage and does not correspond to the atman of the Upanishads.
