Is the East More Pluralistic Than the East?

Eastern empires remained much more pluralistic than european polities that increasingly persecute religious difference in heresy just brutally. And i think that's one of the reasons why asia runs into trouble in the nineteenth century, because it's so much more pluralist in this period. Soe different models. I mean, european histories studied as if it was very self contained, and europeans never learned anything from anybody else, and they came up with everything themselves. That's not true.