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.
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
Divine Left Eye
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
In the nave of the cathedral, in the full Asiatic splendour of a Walt Disney fantasy, pastel dragons
Graham Greene, Tây Ninh in 1952
coil around the columns and pulpit;