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We were told by the Caodai historian Chau Hue Nhan that this center for teaching and popularizing the religion was in fact built on the site of the first spirit séances held in Saigon by the Pho Loan group in 1924. Third set: Trip to the Mekong Delta Tien Thien----called "the Jerusalem of Cao Dai" because it was a...
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Cao Dai is a religion born in Vietnam in the 1930's. Cao Dai teaches Love, Harmony and tolerance. God is Within every Human Being...
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Cao Dai (a.k.a. Dao Cao Dai or Caodaism) is a syncretist Vietnamese religious movement with a strongly nationalist political character. Cao Dai draws upon ethical precepts from Confucianism, occult practices from Taoism, theories of karma and rebirth from Buddhism,
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The Truth is not exclusive to any religion or any group of people. It may come from the heart of any individual because everyone has God Within. " La Vérité n'est ni le mysticism, ni l'occultism. L'occultism, come le mysticism sont des limitations que l'homme donne à la Vérité."
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The word Caodaism derives from Cao-Đài, the literal translation of which corresponds to: “Supreme Palace.” This double term is found in the most ancient Buddhist prayers. It establishes the principal origin of this religion, which is first of all, as we shall see a kind of reformed Buddhism.
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Cao-Đài comes toward man hindered in his walk toward the light and shows him that human reason will triumph over all obstacles, all misunderstandings. However, Cao-Đài guards the free man from the spirit of pride, for he says that all inner light comes from the superior light.
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Cao Dai draws upon ethical precepts from Confucianism, occult practices from Taoism, theories of karma and rebirth from Buddhism, ammad, Pericles, Julius Caesar, Joan of Arc, Victor Hugo, and Sun Yat-sen. In Cao Dai, God is represented as an eye in a triangle, a symbol that appears on the facades of the sect's temples.
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