Well said. And according to Thomas McEvilley's The Shape of Ancient Thought, there was likely some cross-fertilization between ancient Greek and Indian philosophies.

I wrote an article the other day about how China pairs its atheism with Confucianism, which differs in some crucial ways from the Aristotelian, individualistic foundation of Western secularism/modernity.

John Gray is a big fan of Eastern philosophies too, as shown in Straw Dogs.