### Clue: Taking lead from Sita, Stoic converted – embracing eastern philosophy (8)
### Answer: TAOISTIC 
 ### Explanation: Definition: embracing eastern philosophy
  **Anagram of**(converted) ITA{"Sita" **minus**(taking…from) "S",lead,first letter} & STOIC.  Nice surface, sort of, with reference to 2 -isms, and a goddess, though I don't think she had anything to do with either.
Defn:  Embracing Taoism (or Daoism), the hard-to-define eastern philosophy (with religious intertwinings) mainly practised by the Chinese.