The Cao Dai Temple, Birthplace of Caodaism

Caodaism is a monotheistic syncretic religion organized in a hierarchical structure similar to Roman Catholicism. It retains many aspects of Vietnamese folk religion, ancestor worship, ethical principles from Confucianism, and Taoism’s teaching of karmic reincarnation from Buddhism.

Venerable Saints Victor Hugo, Sun Yat Sen, and Trạng Trình Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm.

Three Saints and the Divine Covenant
Their mission is said to guide humanity into the way of the

This painting highlights and is a representation of the Divine Covenant of ‘The Third Amnesty’.

Madam Blavatsky, Allan Kardec, and Victor Hugo championed new religious possibilities for mixing with the new traditions of European spiritism

Temple

Ceremonial silk parasol 

Aura or the truth of
Five colours represents the overall aura or the truth of
Tired of dragon scales, add lotus.
Lotus dragon skin

Divine Left Eye

Cao Da's left eye
Cao Da’s left eye, similar to the Eye of Providence.

Divine Left Eye always watching, never blinking is an important symbol in Caodaism. God is represented as an eye in a triangle of three major religions.

Temple

Walt Disney fantasy

Pillar To Heaven
Pillar To Heaven
Pillar To Heaven
Pillar To Heaven

In the nave of the cathedral, in the full Asiatic splendour of a Walt Disney fantasy, pastel dragons
coil around the columns and pulpit;

Graham Greene, Tây Ninh in 1952

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Window flower
Window flower
Pillars To Heaven
Pillars To Heaven
Blue spheres
A ball of loving kindness and peace 

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