Tradition · East Asian
Cao Đài
A Vietnamese faith uniting the world’s religions under the all-seeing Divine Eye.
1926 CE → · Vietnam · East Asian
Cao Đài, founded in southern Vietnam in 1926, proclaims a single supreme God who has spoken through all the world’s religions and now offers a final, unifying revelation drawing together Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, and Christianity. Guidance is received through organized séances, and its emblem is the Divine Eye. Its vividly colorful Holy See at Tây Ninh and its rapid growth made it a major force in Vietnamese life.
Key figures
- Cao Đài (the Supreme Being)
- Revered saints, including Victor Hugo and Sun Yat-sen
Texts
- Scriptures revealed through séance
Beliefs
- One supreme God behind all religions
- A final revelation uniting East and West
- The Divine Eye as the sign of God
Rituals
- Elaborate temple ceremonies
- Communication with spirits
- Vegetarianism and prayer
Grew from
Connections in the atlas
- The Cao Đài séance messages
- Ngô Văn Chiêu
- Eye of Providence (and the eye over the pyramid)