Cao Dai

MESSAGE FROM THE SPIRIT OF LEON DENIS RELATING TO CAODAISM

Updated 2022-09-19 02:32:20

Westminster, California – Sep 18, 2022 – by Rev. Canh Tran

WHO IS LEON DENIS ?

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Léon Denis (January 1, 1846 – March 12, 1927) was a notable French spiritist philosopher, and, with Gabriel Delanne and Camille Flammarion, one of the principal exponents of spiritism after the death of Allan Kardec. Denis lectured throughout Europe at international conferences of spiritism and spiritualism, promoting the idea of survival of the soul after death and the implications of this for human relations. He is known as the apostle of French spiritism.

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CAODAI COSMOLOGY BY DR. MOHAMMAD JAHANGIR ALAM

Updated 2022-08-08 07:57:50

(California August 2022)

Mohammad Jahangir Alam (born 1977), is an Associate Professor of World Religions and Culture at the University of Dhaka. He earned his MPhil and PhD in World Religions Culture from the same university. As a part of his PhD research fieldwork funded by Cao Dai Overseas Missionary, USA, he studied Vietnamese language and culture at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam from 2012- 2013. An expert on Baha’i Faith, and Cao Dai culture, he authored The Concept of Unity in Baha’i Faith and Caodaism: A Comparative Study in 2010. He was awarded his doctorate in 2020 for “Dao Cao Dai: A Socio-historical Analysis of  a Syncretic Vietnamese Religion and Its Relationship with Other Religions”.

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THE SPIRIT OF CAODAI PHILANTROPY BY DR. MOHAMMAD JAHANGIR ALAM

Updated 2022-08-08 07:43:59

(California August 2022)

Mohammad Jahangir Alam (born 1977), is an Associate Professor of World Religions and Culture at the University of Dhaka. He earned his MPhil and PhD in World Religions Culture from the same university. As a part of his PhD research fieldwork funded by Cao Dai Overseas Missionary, USA, he studied Vietnamese language and culture at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam from 2012- 2013. An expert on Baha’i Faith, and Cao Dai culture, he authored The Concept of Unity in Baha’i Faith and Caodaism: A Comparative Study in 2010. He was awarded his doctorate in 2020 for “Dao Cao Dai: A Socio-historical Analysis of  a Syncretic Vietnamese Religion and Its Relationship with Other Religions”.

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CAO DAI UNDERSTANDING OF GOD BY DR. MOHAMMAD JAHANGIR ALAM

Updated 2022-08-08 07:21:31

(California August 2022)

Mohammad Jahangir Alam (born 1977), is an Associate Professor of World Religions and Culture at the University of Dhaka. He earned his MPhil and PhD in World Religions Culture from the same university. As a part of his PhD research fieldwork funded by Cao Dai Overseas Missionary, USA, he studied Vietnamese language and culture at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam from 2012- 2013. An expert on Baha’i Faith, and Cao Dai culture, he authored The Concept of Unity in Baha’i Faith and Caodaism: A Comparative Study in 2010. He was awarded his doctorate in 2020 for “Dao Cao Dai: A Socio-historical Analysis of  a Syncretic Vietnamese Religion and Its Relationship with Other Religions”.

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DEATH AND DYING IN CAO DAI

Updated 2021-07-21 05:40:48

Cao Dai or Caodaism is a spiritist religion, and everything in the religion such as doctrine, philosophy, prayers, rituals, music, organization, management of the religion, comes from spiritist messages either from God, from the Holy Mother Goddess, from Jesus Christ, from Buddha or from many other Divinities. In this regard, there are many messages related to death and dying, mostly prayers and rituals. We hav-Prayer for the sick -Prayer for guiding the dying soul
- Prayer after one’s death 
- Prayer for the for the ascension of the spirit 
- Prayer for placing the body in the coffin
- Prayer for the burial procession 
- Prayer for the interment of the coffin- Prayers for Postmortem rituals

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CAODAISM AND ITS GLOBAL NETWORKS BY JEREMY JAMMES

Updated 2019-01-01 02:39:26

Born in 1974 - French National - Married - 1 Child

Current position 2014-present Associate Professor - Universiti Brunei Darussalam Institute of Asian Studies (www.ias.ubd.edu.bn)
Associate Researcher  Institute of Asian Studies (IAS, Universiti Brunei Darussalam) since 2014.  
 
Studies Centre of East Asia [Centre d’étude de l’Asie de l’Est] (CETASE, Université de Montréal) since 2013.
 
Southeast Asia Center [Centre Asie du Sud-Est] (CASE, CNRS, Paris), since 2012.
 
Research Institute on Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC, CNRS-MAEE, Bangkok), since 2010.
 
Societies Religions Secularisms Group [Groupe Sociétés Religions Laïcités] (EPHE-CNRS,  Paris) since 2009.
 
 

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WORLD RELIGIONS AND SPIRITUALITY - CAODAISM

Updated 2017-08-27 07:12:45

Janet Hoskins is Professor of Anthropology and Religion at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.  Her books include The Divine Eye and the Diaspora:  Vietnamese Syncretism Becomes Transpacific Caodaism (2015, University of Hawaii Press),  The Play of Time: Kodi Perspectives on History, Calendars and Exchange (1996 Benda Prize in Southeast Asian Studies, Association of Asian Scholars), and Biographical Objects: How Things Tell the Stories of People’s Lives (1998).  She is the contributing editor of four books: Transpacific Studies: Framing an Emerging Field (with Viet Thanh Nguyen, University of Hawaii 2014), Headhunting and the Social Imagination in Southeast Asia (1996),

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Brief Outline of History and Philosophy of Caodaism

Updated 2012-08-21 07:38:49

It was often said that few phenomena in Asia have been so completely misinterpreted by the West as the Vietnamese religion known as "Caodaism".  Given its firm roots of Caodaism in Vietnamese culture, and the adherence of millions of followers, it is surprising that only recently have serious studies of the Cao Dai been undertaken

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The three Saints

Updated 2012-05-14 13:40:20

The dominant feature of the Tinh Tam Dien is the mural on the wall. The three figures it depicts are Saints through their spiritualistic connection with Caodaism. In plain modern Chinese dress is the founder of the first Chinese Republic Sun Yat Sen (spiritual name: Trung Son Chon Nhon). He holds an inkstone representative of Chinese culture.

Next to him in Western dress and white beard is Victor Hugo the compassionate French poet and writer (who reveals himself spiritually as Chuong Dao Nguyet Tam Chon Nhon). He acts in the spiritual realm as the foreign missionary of Caodaism. He writes with a feather pen representing Western Civilisation.

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Caodaism and Bahaism

Updated 2012-05-14 13:40:20

ÐỀ TÀI LUẬN ÁN TIẾN SĨ CỦA 

MOHAMMAD JAHANGIR ALAM 

VIỆN ÐẠI HỌC DHAKA, BANGLADESH

Synopsis

The Concept of Unity in Bahaism and Caodaism:

A Comparative Study

Introduction:

Every religion has some basic principles and it is very interesting that we will have an excellent similarity among the principles of all religions, which easily prove a continuous chain of the presentation of these principles from the same source. Like other religions, Bahaism and Caodaism are also religions. Bahai faith has been spread across the length and breadth of the world. The Baha’is, like Caodaism, basically believe in three unity which are as follows:

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