All religions are one — and God has a left eye on all of it.
Vietnam's great synthesis, founded in 1926 by séance: one Supreme Being (Cao Đài) who has taught through Buddha, Laozi, Confucius, and Jesus alike, a colorful Holy See at Tây Ninh, and a canon of saints that includes Victor Hugo. Several million adherents, mostly in Vietnam.
DeitiesCao Đài — the Supreme Being, symbolized by the Left Eye of God
Founded1926 CE · Tây Ninh, Vietnam
FounderNgô Văn Chiêu and the founding mediums
AfterlifeKarma and rebirth, toward union with the Divine
TextsThánh Ngôn Hiệp Tuyển — the collected divine messages
The map
Cao Đài’s corner of it — solid lines are descent; dotted lines are resemblance only, ideas held in common across unrelated faiths. Click a node to recenter; ✕ returns here. All 171 faiths →
All great teachers taught one God.
Buddha, Laozi, Confucius, Jesus, Muhammad — three revelations, one source: Cao Đài is the third and unifying amnesty.
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The Divine Eye watches all.
God's Left Eye — chosen because the heart sits left — gazes from every altar and the Holy See's great globe.
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Heaven has a bureaucracy, and it answers.
Revelation arrived by séance, formally recorded; the canon of saints ranges from Sun Yat-sen to Victor Hugo.
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Cao Đài — the Supreme Being.
The one teacher behind Buddha, Laozi, Confucius, and Jesus — now teaching directly, the faith holds, through the third amnesty.
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The four daily ceremonies.
At six, noon, six, and midnight: incense, offerings of tea and flowers, prayers before the Divine Eye.
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