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I can't say I'm familiar with those traditional Chinese beliefs that you refer to. Having been raised in a Buddhist household, I distinctly recall being instructed in self-dicipline and some empathy 'training', but nowhere in the past twenty years of my life have I heard anything about being damned to hell regardless.
While there exists an equivilant of 'hell' in eastern religions, including Buddhism, the notion that you're damned to suffer for all eternity if you do not beleive in whatever diety is a distinctively Christian notion.
Quite frankly, in the context of most eastern religions, it doesn't matter what you do, you're essentially golden as long as you're not trampling on others.
That is vastly different from the core Christian notion that all heretics and/or non-beleivers are automatically damned... and even if you're a beleiver, you're still damned if you slip and step out of line of the horroribly out of date, archaic list of rules written by someone centuries dead. That scripture was probably written to prevent the then uneducated masses from killing eachother and really holds no real significance outside of sentiment today.
These are, however, only my views on the subject. If they agree with you, great. If not, I'm not open to the discussion of said topics. I used to talk about it before, but I inadverntly run into the same age old rhetoric.