Meanings of Values and Spirituality in the Asian Context

This Issue gathers research papers that explore multifaceted relationships between values and spirituality in an Asian context.Focuses are on Chinese and Indian cultural areas, as well as on a remote region of Pamir.There are two levels of investigation and field research: one assesses major cultural and spiritual areas on the Asian continent, while the second examines its borderlands and remote cultural regions.The first two papers consider the material support as a privileged way of expressing the spiritual values of a cultural tradition, focusing on ding (vessels) and prayer beads.The other two are discussing the connections between thinking, spirituality, and social values.The last one reveals the extraordinary ways of preserving a spiritual values code.These contributions offer a glimpse into the profound connections between spiritual codes, social codes, and the preservation of cultural identity in Asia.