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Death and dying in Cao Dai
By Admin Webmaster 8/12/2021 8:05:45 AMCao Dai or Caodaism is a spiritist religion, and everything in the religion such as doctrine, philosophy, prayers, rituals, music, organization, management of the religion, comes from spiritist messages either from God, from the Holy Mother Goddess, from Jesus Christ, from Buddha or from many other Divinities. In this regard, there are many messages related to death and dying, mostly prayers and rituals.
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L’initiation de la méditation Caodaïste
By Admin Webmaster 3/1/2016 9:16:56 AMNous voulions exposer ici d’une façon succincte les principes de la méditation dans la Religion Caodaïste afin d’offrir aux pratiquants un aspect de la Pratique méditative parmi tant d’autres existant depuis l’antiquité et que nos Saints Maîtres nous avaient léguées selon les degrés de spiritualité et de l’âge de chaque individu.
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The relationship between Caodaism and new religious movements
By Admin Webmaster 11/9/2022 11:17:15 AMA critical analysis in quest of the relationship between Caodaism and new religious movements: comparison and appraisal
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Brief Outline of History and Philosophy of Caodaism
By Admin Webmaster 1/7/2022 9:50:02 AMIt was often said that few phenomena in Asia have been so completely misinterpreted by the West as the Vietnamese religion known as "Caodaism". Given its firm roots of Caodaism in Vietnamese culture, and the adherence of millions of followers, it is surprising that only recently have serious studies of the Cao Dai been undertaken.
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History and philosophy of Caodaism (2)
By Admin Webmaster 3/12/2019 4:19:41 PMEarly in 1926, some young Vietnamese scholars, all Buddhists, gathered in a compartment in the middle of Saigon. They had the habit of “table tipping”, and giving themselves to spiritist experiments...
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The three Saints
By Admin Webmaster 3/12/2019 7:36:11 PMThe three figures it depicts are Saints through their spiritualistic connection with Caodaism. In plain modern Chinese dress is the founder of the first Chinese Republic Sun Yat Sen.
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Caodaism and Spiritism
By Admin Webmaster 3/12/2019 4:13:09 PMCaodaism is the first religious community so far that enables its adepts to have direct communication with the transcendental world via institutionalised spiritist seances....
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Caodaism: A brief History and Philosophy (1) - Christopher Hartney
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMInitially, I would like to provide a brief historical account of Caodaism leaving to one side issues of morality, ethics and lifestyle which are better explained by my travelling companions. Secondly I would like to speak of Caodaism as a manifestation of monotheism in the East and explain methods of revelation as a way of contrasting this faith with that of the prophetic tradition of the West
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Cao Dai understanding of God by Dr. Mohammad Jahangir Alam
By Admin Webmaster 8/12/2022 10:43:46 AMMohammad Jahangir Alam (born 1977), is an Associate Professor of World Religions and Culture at the University of Dhaka. He earned his MPhil and PhD in World Religions Culture from the same university.
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CAO DAI FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) PART IV
By Admin Webmaster 7/11/2022 9:33:08 AMCAO DAI FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) PART IV
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Caodaism: Beliefs & Rituals
By Admin Webmaster 3/28/2022 10:40:17 AMCaodaism can be described as the melting pot of the world's religions. It started in Vietnam and has grown into its third largest organized religion. This lesson reviews its major beliefs and rituals.
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The three Saints
By Admin Webmaster 1/26/2022 9:22:23 AMThe dominant feature of the Tinh Tam Dien is the mural on the wall. The three figures it depicts are Saints through their spiritualistic connection with Caodaism. In plain modern Chinese dress is the founder of the first Chinese Republic Sun Yat Sen (spiritual name:Trung Son Chon Nhon). He holds an inkstone representative of Chinese culture.
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Caodaism and Unitarianism
By Admin Webmaster 1/17/2022 10:30:45 AMThe Concept of Unity in Caodaism and Unitarianism: a Comparative Study.
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Caodaism and Bahaism
By Admin Webmaster 1/14/2022 9:36:09 AMSynopsis. The Concept of Unity in Bahaism and Caodaism: a Comparative Study
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Derrière le voile de l’oeil céleste (3)
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMEn 1979, Đỗ Vạn Lý a été approché par un groupe de familles caodaïstes qui s’étaient établies au Nord de la Californie dans le but de mener un rassemblement intercommunautaire. Le titre religieux qu’il avait obtenu au CQPTGL, tham lý minh đạo ... -
Derrière le voile de l’oeil céleste (2)
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMLibéré après le coup de force japonais de mars 1945, il retourna chez lui et constata que sa propriété avait été saisie et que son épouse ainsi que plusieurs de ses enfants étaient morts de famine et d’épuisement durant ses deux ans d’incarcération20. Retournant au sanctuaire du Saint-siège ... -
Derrière le voile de l’oeil céleste (1)
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMLes phénomènes de clairvoyance, de visions ou d’apparitions surnaturelles, peuvent-elles avoir un impact sur les décisions politiques ou sur l’histoire d’un pays et de son peuple ? Plus précisément, le mysticisme, et l’enchantement du monde qui l’accompagne,... -
Phap-chanh-truyen (2): The religious constitution of Caodaism
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMThe Legislative Cardinals belong to the three branches: Taoist, Confucianist and Buddhist. Commentary : There is only one Legislative Cardinal in each branch. The three branches differ from each other both interiorly and exteriorly. The doctrinal principles are not the same. The New Code (Tan-Luat) is a syncretisation of them. -
Phap-chanh-truyen (1): The religious constitution of Caodaism
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMDue to the present special circumstances in Viet-Nam, an official approval from the Sacerdotal Council (Hoi-Thanh), of the Tay-Ninh Holy See cannot be obtained. However, while this is not an official translation, we expect approval to be granted when circumstances permit in the future. For better understanding and practical application of this work, please see the text of Phap-Chanh-Truyen in Vietnamese, as well other Cao-Dai texts. -
Divine Teaching Regarding the Veneration of Heaven and of the Divine Eye
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMDisciple Trung, come into the middle of the room and prostrate before me. Well done. However, you must remember to pray "NAM MO CAO DAI TIEN ONG DAI BO TAT MA HA TAT" each time you nod. A major ceremony has three offerings: incense and flowers, wine, and tea. -
Basic Catechism of Caodaism (2)
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMWhat is the Universal Amnesty of the Third Universal Salvation? What are the Caodaist perspectives of life? What is the purpose of Caodaism? What is the meaning of the “Great Harmony in the Temporal Way”? -
Cao Dai Understanding of God
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMAll through history people have longed to know the unknown to find immune happiness to life’s anxieties. It is religion that promises to fulfill this longing of human beings. In that case, we find some forms of religion existed everywhere in the world that map out a route to this end. -
Basic Catechism of Caodaism (1)
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMWhat is the foundation of Caodaism? What do Caodaists confide in God? What are meant by the concept of impersonal God and that of personal God? What is the Caodaist cosmological viewpoint?... -
Caodaism: a Religion for Peace
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMThis paper is written in order to contribute to the 2nd International Conference on Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue, which will be held on November 26 - 28, 2010 in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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Kansas State University and Oomoto Religion attended the Great Festival Commemorating God - Year 2023
By Admin Webmaster 2/15/2023 10:16:52 AMFestival Commemorating God in the Year of the Rat 2020, Rev.Thuong Canh Thanh, former Representative of the Cao Dai Sacerdotal Council Overseas
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Message from the Spirit of Leon Denis relating to Caodaism
By Admin Webmaster 9/26/2022 10:46:52 AMI have consecrated this existence to the service of a Great cause, Spiritism or Modern Spiritualism that will certainly be the universal faith, and the religion of the future.
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Cao Daism in Vietnam
By Admin Webmaster 8/24/2022 10:23:51 AMCao Dai religion is both a monotheistic and polytheistic religion that has been established in Vietnam in the early twentieth century.
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Reverend Thuong Canh Thanh has terminated his job as representative of the Caodai sacerdoce overseas
By Admin Webmaster 8/10/2022 9:28:00 AMAs announced at the Caodai Quintennial Overseas Congress of 2022 in Washington, D.C. on June 19, 2022, Rev. Thuong Canh Thanh (Tran Quang Canh) has submitted an application to the Cao Dai Sacerdotal Council Tay Ninh Holy See to resign from the position of Head Representative of the Cao Dai Sacerdoce Overseas on June 20
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Dr. jahangir alam appointed chairman of the dept of world religions and culture, university of dhaka, bangladesh
By Admin Webmaster 12/29/2021 9:14:57 AMOn October 3, 2021, Dr. Mohammad Jahangir Alam, Associate Professor and Principal Lecturer of the ‘Cao Dai Religious Tradition’ course, was promoted to take the post of the Chairman of the Department of World Religions and Culture (DWRC) at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, for a 3-year term from October 2021 to October 2024.
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Cao Dai Taipei Cỏngegation Pảticipated in The 3rd Easssr 2021 Jeju Conference in South Korea
By Admin Webmaster 8/7/2021 9:48:59 PMSub-dignitary Nguyen Tuan Em, Acting Head of the Taipei-based Cao Dai Congregation has just attended a 3-day EASSSR 2021 Jeju Virtual Conference on “Religion and Peace in East Asia: The Roles of Religion in Times of Crises”.
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Dr. Mohammad Jahangir Alam Talking About Caodaism At The BSSCR Vỉtual Conference
By Admin Webmaster 6/2/2021 7:59:33 AMAt the invitation of the Bangladesh Society for the Study of Culture and Religion (BSSCR), Dr. Mohammad Jahangir Alam delivered a Keynote Speech on a Socio-historical Overview of the Syncretic Origin of Caodaism at the 2nd Annual Conference of the BSSCR (online via google meet) on Saturday, May 29, 2021 at 11 am.
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Reflections on Cao Đai and daesoon jinrihoe's precious friendship
By Admin Webmaster 5/19/2021 10:28:04 AMOn the eve of the New Year 2021 (Year of the Buffalo), on behalf of His Eminence Cardinal Thuong Tam Thanh, Chairman of the Cao Dai Sacerdotal Council at the Tay Ninh Holy See, as well as dignitaries in Tay Ninh and Cao Dai Overseas Missionary, we sincerely wish His Excellency Yun Eun-Do, President of Daesoon Jinrihoe, together with his family, the dignitaries of Daesoon Jinrihoe, and the wonderful readers of Global Daesoon GOOD HEALTH, HAPPINESS, LONGEVITY AND PROSPERITY, but above all else we pray you receive many BLESSINGS from the SUPREME GOD OF THE NINTH HEAVEN – GUCHEON SANGJE.
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Great Festival Commemorating God at The Cao Dai Tay Ninh Holy See – Year 2021
By Admin Webmaster 2/26/2021 9:58:35 AMGreat Festival Commemorating God at The Cao Dai Tay Ninh Holy See – Year 2021
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Cao Dai Taipei Congregation Attended The 15th Chinese United Worship Ceremony At Weixin Shengjiao
By Admin Webmaster 1/4/2021 11:22:14 AMCao Dai Taipei Congregation Attended The 15th Chinese United Worship Ceremony At Weixin Shengjiao. The ceremony was held at the Sports University of Taiwan Stadium, Taoyuan City. It is known that this is the last Great Prayer Ceremony after 15 consecutive years held by the Weixin Shengjiao religion.
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International Conference on religious Studies at Cheng Chi University Taiwan
By Admin Webmaster 12/16/2020 10:17:02 AMOn 11 December 2020, Sub-dignitary Nguyen Tuan Em, Congregation Chief and Ly Thi Thuy Trang, Secretary of the Taiwan Taipei-based Cao Dai Congregation, both participated in a Virtual International Conference called “New Religions in East Asia: Development and Internationalization” at the Invitation from the Graduate Institute for Religious Studies, Cheng Chi University, Taiwan.
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Weixin Shengjiao Delegation Visited Taipei Cao Dai Congregation in Taiwan
By Admin Webmaster 11/25/2020 9:39:47 AMFollowing the invitation of Reverend Thuong Canh Thanh (President of Cao Dai Overseas Missionary) and Taipei Caodai Congregation, at 10:30AM on November 21st 2020, the delegation consisting of 11 delegates from Weixin Shengjiao (Taichung, Taiwan), Daesoon Jinrihoe (South Korea) and Taiwan Cheng Chi University paid a visit to the worship place of Taipei Cao Dai Congregation.
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Cao Dai God's Prophecy about Spiritism Revealed 95 Years Later
By Admin Webmaster 11/23/2020 10:17:56 AMAs researchers and scholars are aware of, Caodaism is a spiritist religion, based completely on divine messages received from God and other Divinities to establish the religion in 1926 in Viet Nam.
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Cao Dai Class Taught at Kansas State University – USA
By Admin Webmaster 11/18/2020 9:29:45 AMOn November 9th, 2020 (Fall semester), Professor Dr. Michael Wesch gave an introduction lecture of the Cao Dai Religion to his students at Kansas State University (USA). This lecture is within the “Introduction to World's Religions” course, Anthropology major.
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Arab 24 News Agency Made a Reportage on Cao Dai Religion at The Cao Dai Tay Ninh Holy See
By Admin Webmaster 11/9/2020 10:21:38 AMArab 24 News Agency Made a Reportage on Cao Dai Religion at The Cao Dai Tay Ninh Holy See
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H.E Cardinal Thuong Tam Thanh Attended The 244th Anniversary Of The Us Independence Day In Hcm City
By Admin Webmaster 10/19/2020 10:44:12 AMConsul General of the United States of America in Ho Chi Minh City, at 6 p.m. on Friday, October 9, 2020
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Caodai Overseas Missionary Gave M.Phil Research Scholarship To Injamam Mojumder, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
By Admin Webmaster 10/9/2020 10:47:05 AMThe Vice Chancellor of the University of Dhaka, Professor Dr. Md. Akhtaruzzaman handed over a cheque of MPhil Research Grant of Cao Dai Overseas Missionary (CDOM), California, USA, for this year 2020 to Injamam Mahbub Mojumder at his office on Wednesday October, 7, 2020.
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Celebration of The Holy Mother Goddess Grand Festival Year 2020
By Admin Webmaster 10/7/2020 9:39:10 AMAccording to tradition since the establishment of Dai Dao Tam Ky Pho Do, every year on the full moon day of the eighth lunar calendar, all Cao Dai adepts gather at the Holy See to celebrate the Great Festival Commemorating the Holy Mother Goddess and Her 9 Muses (called “Hoi Yen Dieu Tri Cung”)
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Taipei Caodai Congegation Attended Weixin Sheng Jlao's Gratification Ritual in Nantou, Taiwan
By Admin Webmaster 9/18/2020 11:10:09 AMReport from Taipei, 27 June 2020. Pictures by Weixin Shengjiao
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Vietnam's Destination Divine: Cao Dai Holy See
By Admin Webmaster 3/11/2016 10:38:45 AMOn a recent backpacking trip to South Vietnam, Raul Dias chanced upon Caodaism, a 20th Century monotheistic religion thats a curious amalgamation of various philosophies, and its venerated ‘Ground Zero’
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Visit to Ootomo Religon in Japan by Caodai Sacerdotal Council
By Admin Webmaster 3/11/2016 10:40:37 AMThis is the first time that the Sacerdotal Council of the Cao Đai Holysee in Tay Ninh province has accepted the invitation from the Oomoto Religion to attend the Oomoto Miroku Great Festival held on May 5, 2013.
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Impression d’une catholique suite à la cérémonie caodaïste en honneur de Lao Tseu
By Admin Webmaster 3/11/2016 10:42:36 AM"L’accueil des fidèles caodaïstes - habillés en aodai traditionnel immaculée - y est sans aucun doute pour beaucoup. En outre la couleur blanche-omniprésente- renforce ce sentiment de sérénité ; comme un havre de paix au milieu de la pollution et du bruit..."
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52 students taking Caodaism course in 2013 at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
By Admin Webmaster 3/11/2016 10:44:52 AMA Four Year Bachelor of Arts Degree at the Department of World Religions and Culture of the University of Dhaka requires students to study 28 courses out of 38. These courses are distributed in eight semesters with an end in view to complete two semesters per year. As there are more than 28 courses in...
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Structure of Caodaism (2)
By Admin Webmaster 3/11/2016 10:46:19 AMThere is only one Giao-Tong/Pope who is the Leader of the Cuu Trung Dai/Executive Body. There are three Chuong-Phap/Legislative Cardinals. The three Legislative Cardinals/Chuong-Phap belong to the three branches: Nho (Confucianist), Thich (Buddhist) and Dao (Taoist); one for ...
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Derrière le voile de l’oeil céleste (4)
By Admin Webmaster 3/11/2016 10:56:53 AMLa présente étude a tenté de décrire comment l’autorité et le charisme religieux ont pu se construire au sein du caodaïsme, et ceci au travers de parenthèses biographiques de plusieurs personnalités fondatrices de branches ou d’organismes caodaïstes. Du point de vue religieux, ...
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Caodaism is becoming
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMI am also interested in hearing more about ways in which Caodaism is becoming "globalized"----linked to communities in other countries and part of an international conversation. From your question, “globalized” may refers to -
Structure of Caodaism (1)
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMIn 1926 God (Duc Cao Dai) indicated that the Religion was to have three branches/boards: the Bat-Quai-Dai, the Hiep-Thien-Dai and the Cuu-Trung-Dai. In order to operate the Religion the three branches/boards must act in concert. -
Cochinchina as a cultural precondition for the foundation of Caodaism (4)
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMOf those 300 historical years, Caodaism covers less than one third. Innumerable hardships and perilousness suffered by Caodaist founders are possibly not much different from those endured by generations of pioneers in Cochinchina. They all yearned to open a bright horizon for their descendants... -
Cochinchina as a cultural precondition for the foundation of Caodaism (3)
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMIn short, before the birth of Caodaism, the coexistence of different nationalities in Cochinchina during some 200 years had enabled the new region to have an open condition for cultural exchange and association. We could say that Cochinchina had allowed a multi-cultural tendency from its very beginning, thus it showed no allergic attitude toward a syncretic belief like Caodaism... -
Cochinchina as a cultural precondition for the foundation of Caodaism (2)
By Admin Webmaster 2/6/2016 10:31:10 AMThis fact of course results in their open-mindedness and readiness to contact and accept what is new. Cochinchinese people are, as a result, easy to tolerate, admit, and actively support the new. Their mentality and behaviour are most favourable for the birth of a new religion like Caodaism...
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