Fast Facts
Adherents	4-6 million
Date Founded	1926
Place Founded	Vietnam
Founder(s)	Ngo Van Chieu
Beliefs	God represented by Divine Eye. Salvation by "cultivating self and finding God in self." Reincarnation.
Practices	Hierarchy similar to Roman Catholicism. Daily prayer. Meditation. Communication with spirit world (now outlawed in Vietnam).
Texts	Caodai canon

Cao Dai (a.k.a. Dao Cao Dai or Caodaism) is a syncretist Vietnamese religious movement with a nationalist political character. Cao Dai draws upon ethical duties and virtues from Confucianism, occult rituals from Taoism, theories of karma and rebirth from Buddhism, and a hierarchical organization from Roman Catholicism. Its saints includes the Buddha, Confucius, Jesus Christ, Muhammad, Pericles, Julius Caesar, Joan of Arc, Victor Hugo, and Sun Yat-sen.

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