Core tenet of Cao Đài
All great teachers taught one God.
Buddha, Laozi, Confucius, Jesus, Muhammad — three revelations, one source: Cao Đài is the third and unifying amnesty.
Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held
Cao Đài's founding claim is that Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, and Christianity were all taught by the same Supreme Being through different messengers suited to their times and places, and that the third and final revelation is now given directly. Its Holy See at Tây Ninh venerates an unusual roster of saints including Victor Hugo, Sun Yat-sen, and the Vietnamese poet Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm — a choice that outsiders find startling and that follows straightforwardly from the premise.
The same ground, other faiths
claims that share this one's ideas
Many paths, one goal: knowledge, devotion, action, discipline.
Hinduism
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The teaching bends to the hearer.
Buddhism
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Truth has many sides.
Jainism
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The movements.
Judaism · community
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The People of the Book are not idolaters.
Islam
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The Guru's door is open; the Khalsa's door has a threshold.
Sikhism
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