# Caodaism · The Canon · The Atlas · The Congregation of Tomorrow Source: https://congregationoftomorrow.org/atlas/library/canon/caodaism/ · The Congregation of Tomorrow · the Atlas · language: en The same words a person sees on this page, nothing more and nothing hidden. Our own words are free to use under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), naming the Congregation of Tomorrow. Words of others keep their own terms. Every page of the site, listed: https://congregationoftomorrow.org/ai/pages.json · the whole site in one file: https://congregationoftomorrow.org/llms-full.txt ← The Canon: all 125 The Canon · No. 100 Caodaism Cao Đài; the Great Way of the Third Era of Salvation 1926 CE – present · New Religious Movement · Living · Vietnam, especially Tây Ninh; diaspora in the US, Australia, France VII. THE MODERN AGE — 1800 – 1945 ### How many ### Who began it ### What it is for ### What it worships ### What it holds ### What it does ### After death ### Its texts ### Its branches ### Of note ### Its timeline - 1921 CE Ngô Văn Chiêu's first vision of the Divine Eye at Phú Quốc. - 1926 CE Public declaration at Tây Ninh; the religion grows to hundreds of thousands within a few years, drawing heavily on colonial-era clerks and small landowners. - 1927–1955 CE The Great Temple at Tây Ninh built — an extraordinary building combining a Gothic nave, Chinese dragon pillars and a Buddhist rooftop. - 1940s–50s CE Caodaism maintains its own army, of perhaps 25,000, manoeuvring between the French, the Japanese, the Việt Minh and the Saigon government. - 1955 CE Ngô Đình Diệm's forces break the Cao Đài army; the religion is politically neutralised. - 1975 CE After reunification the communist government seizes Caodaist property, bans mediumship and suppresses the hierarchy. - 1997 CE The state grants legal recognition to a reorganised, state-approved Tây Ninh church; some branches refuse to join and remain unrecognised. - Present Substantial diaspora communities; Tây Ninh is a major tourist site. ### Sources Not yet checked against named sources. This entry is the house's reading; until it is checked, treat each claim as unverified. Correct it, with a source. The Atlas The Door