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Structure of CaoDai Religion

Since Cao Đài Religion /  Đại Đạo Tam Kỳ Phổ Độ (大道三期普度, Third Amnesty of God in the East, The Great Way of Third Universal Salvation) was founded, God established Pháp Chánh Truyền (法正傳 , The Religious Constitution of Caodaism) and guided the high dignitaries to form the Tân Luật (新律, The New Canonical Codes), and Thế Luật

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Ways of Serving in CaoDai Religion

Within the structures mentioned above, after becoming followers, adherents have many ways of serving which Religious Laws reserve for them. They may enter either the Cửu Trùng Ðài/the Executive Body or the Hiệp Thiên Ðài/the Legislative Body. According to Pháp Chánh Truyền (The Religious Constitution of Caodaism), followers may be elected and hold a post if they can prove their capacity in terms of deeds, words and virtue. Nominations and promotions in the episcopal hierarchy are first submitted to the Popular Council/ Hội Nhơn  Sanh. Then they are submitted to the Sacerdotal Council/ Hội Thánh. They are also submitted to the High Council/Thuong Hoi, and finally must be approved by God or by the Spiritual Pope Li T'ai Pai (Đức Lý Giáo Tông). Almost all the positions in the Caodaist hierarchy can be replaced by election, except those titles directly appointed by God (Đức Cao-Đài)

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Practising Caodaism - Duties of Adherents. Caodaists are instructed in their duties and responsibilities to self, family, country, society and humanity, other religious denominations. They also are taught to believe in the Laws of Evolution, the Doctrine of Reincarnation (reimbodiment), Doctrine of Karma (law of cause and effect), in Divine Justice and in the occult Realm

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A Summary of Cao-Dai Rituals

Contents.* Method of Worshipping and Making Offerings.

* Methods of bowing and making prostrations before God's altar .

* Method of Worshipping the Divine Mother at a Holy Mother temple .

* Worshipping - major and minor temple ceremonies .

* Periods of Vegetarianism .

* Details for Last Rites and Services for the Dead .

* Placing the Body in the Coffin .

* Asking for Salvation of the Soul .

* Ceremony for Mourning Dress .

* Ceremony for the Procession of the Coffin .

* Ceremony for Interment of the Coffin .

* The Nine Nine-Day Periods / Làm Tuần Cửu.

* The Small Ceremony in the Middle of Mourning Period / Tiểu Tường.

* The Great Ceremony in the End of Mourning Period / Đại Tường.

* Ceremony to Offer Prayers for Souls not in the Religion .

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Cao Đài Altar Cao Đài Rituals - Worship and Prayer

The Altar to Cao Đài/The Altar of the Supreme Being

The pinnacle of the Great Divine Temple is the Altar to the Supreme Being, (Đức Cao Đài / God / 高臺) placed at the Bát Quái Ðài / 八卦臺 (Eight Trigrams Palace, administered by the Council of the Great Spirits governing the Eight States of Soul,

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Initiation and Its Meaning

According to the Tân-Luật (The New Canonical Codes), anyone who wishes to follow the Religion (CaoDaism) has to be introduced by two followers of outstanding moral rectitude to the head of the parish/head of the Local Congregation. These two sponsors must initiate and guide the new disciple into the path of ethics and morality. Thus the new

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Temples / Centres of Caodaism Around the World

The Holy See (Tòa Thánh) and the Holy City (Thánh Địa) as well as the original center of Cao Đài Religion are in the province of Tây Ninh, which is about 100 kilometers northwest of Saigon. The Tây Ninh Holy See is 4 kilometers east of the provincial capital. The Holy City, area of about 20,328 hectares divided into 18 sections or neighborhoods administered by the Church. The Holy See is the site of the Main Temple (Đền Thánh),

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Bibliography / References/ Links. In English Aiken, Warren R . Palace of the Most High. [Article] Journal of Religion and Psychical Research. 1997. 20: (1 Ja) 35-40 .

Aiken, Warren R . Palace of the Most High. [Article] Journal of Religion and Psychical Research. 1997. 20: (1 Ja) 35-40 .

Algar, Liza. Looking into the Divine Eye With a second film version of Graham Greene's The

Quiet American set to open,

Why I Chose The Path Of The DAO (Mike Nally)

I was raised in a very large Irish Catholic family (three brothers, seven sisters). My father was Catholic newspaper editor in Ohio. He knew many Priests, Bishops, even Cardinals of the Church.

The Mass – the liturgy of the church, it’s beautiful and rich rituals with candles, incense the statues of Jesus, the Holy Mother, and all the Saints were very appealing to me.
As a youth, I walked miles to the local Church everyday to serve as an altar boy and kneed close to the gold tabernacle and the body of God.

Where the Faithful Worship Among the Tourists (New York Times)

Rows of Cao Dai believers bowed in prayer.

JUST before midnight, the monks were still arriving. Dressed in long, flowing white robes, they resembled fireflies as they rode through the darkness on their motorbikes, descending on the towering temple at the heart of the Cao Dai holy land in southern Vietnam. Many were attending their fourth service of the day.

Removing his sandals and smoothing down his robes, Vo Huu Nghia, 60, who had befriended me that day last year,