Cao Dai

INVITATION TO VISIT CAODAI HOLY SEE IN TAY NINH, VIET NAM

Updated 2012-05-14 13:40:20

On September 19, 2010, a delegation of faculty members of the Department of World Religions at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, will visit Viet Nam on the invitation of the Cao Dai Overseas Missionary. The participants will visit the Cao Dai Holy See in Tay Ninh, then will take a tour of some provinces in the South such as Can Tho and Rach Gia. They will end up visiting the island of Phu Quoc, a beautiful province with pristine beaches, where His Excellency Ngo Minh Chieu, the first Cao Dai adept, had seen the Divine Eye.

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Dr. Lukas Pokorny’s visit to Cao Dai in Viet Nam

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(Reported by Nguyen Thi Thanh Nhan - July 15, 2010)

Lukas Pokorny is from Austria, with a job as Research Assistant at the Chair of East Asian Economy and Society. He is Vice Director of the Studies Program of the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Vienna. He holds an M.A. degree in Comparative Religious Studies, General History, Philosophy, and Korean Studies and a PhD in Philosophy. His current research focuses on Religious Traditions in East Asia, with emphasis on the Role of Confucianism and the Political Impact/Doctrinal Dimension of New Religious Movements, Historical Epistemology, and Comparative Religious Studies.

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Special Seminar on “Kazi Nazrul Islam and Interfaith Harmony”

Updated 2012-05-14 13:40:20

(News from Dhaka, Bangladesh, June 1, 2011)

On the occasion of the 112th Birthday of Kazi Nazrul Islam, the National Poet of Bangladesh, the Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue of the Department of World Religions and Culture of Dhaka University held a seminar on “Kazi Nazrul Islam and Interfaith Harmony” on May 25, 2011.

Professor Saumitra Shekar of the Department of Bangla and an active member of Religions for Peace (RfP), Bangladesh presented the keynote paper. Principal Pranab Kumar Barua, Vice President of RfP-Bangladesh and the Secretary General of Bangladesh Buddhist Cultural Propagation Society, Professor Hirendra Nath Biswas, Vice President of RfP-Bangladesh and the President, Bangladesh National Hindu Reformation Society; Dr. Marufi Khan, Principal Ispahani Girls’ College, Dhaka and Professor Fr. Tapan Camilus De Rozario, Vice President of RfP-Bangladesh and Director, Pontifical Mission Society of Bangladesh took part in the discussion.

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Caodaist scholarship manifest in Riga

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The Caodaist Overseas Missionary has, for the last few years now, been assisting scholars in their research on Caodaism. This year was no different with the Missionary helping Dr Sergei Blagov and I attend the CESNUR conference in Riga, Latvia. Now it might take some thinking to link Dao Cao Dai with the very extremities of Europe but nevertheless, this meeting of scholars presented a great chance for fostering interest in the religion at a scholarly and international level.

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Institutionalising Spiritism and The Esoteric

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Note - Christopher Hartney has a BA Honors in Religious Studies from the University of Sydney where he is currently completing a Masters of Philosophy on the history of Caodaism in Australia. He tutors and is a part-time lecturer at the School of Studies in Religion and also works as a broadcaster for religious affairs for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

The following is Chris Hartney’s presentation at CESNUR (Center for Studies of New Religions) Conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on June 3, 1999.

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Interview with Dr Janet Hoskins...

Updated 2012-05-07 20:54:17

Dr. Hoskins: I became interested in Caodaism by reading about it and seeing that there was a temple in Pomona, about 5 minutes from where I grew up. I had been studying religions in Southeast Asia for many years, mainly in Indonesia, and had read some reports about Caodaism published in English.

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Caodaism Taught At The University Of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Updated 2012-05-07 20:49:52

Dr. Mohammad Jahangir Alam, Lecturer at the Department of World Religions, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, also a specialist in Caodaism, just informed that his department has approved the Cao Dai religion course to be included in the curriculum for third year students of the M.A program, starting with this academic year 2008-2009.

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Caodaism and Spiritism

Updated 2012-05-07 18:22:00

Caodaism is the first religious community so far that enables its adepts to have direct communication with the transcendental world via institutionalised spiritist seances. We believe that their doctrine provides the synthesis of all great teachings of the past. The full name of Cao Dai religion is “The Great Way of the Third Era of Salvation.”

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Caodai in Cambodia Farrell

Updated 2012-05-07 16:37:44

On 17 September last year, the mid-morning monotony of the Mao Tse Tsung Boulevard was interrupted by an unusual spectacle. Amid the petrol fumes and incessant growl of engines, twelve people in long white robes marched towards the Intercontinental Hotel. There the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) was holding its Inter Parliamentary Organisational Summit (AIPOS)

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