Download or read book Cao Dai Great Way written by Anh-Tuyet Tran and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sacred scripture delineates the esoteric teaching of Caodaism and is originally written in Vietnamese.
Download or read book Cao Dai Great Way the Essentials written by and published by . This book was released on 2024-04-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a Vietnamese to English translation of a religious study on Caodaism.
Download or read book Destination Saigon written by Walter Mason and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get a taste of the real Vietnam and its people on a sometimes funny, always fascinating journey from the bustling cities to the out of the way villages, into Buddhist monasteries and along the Mekong - a real delight for armchair travellers and those contemplating their own adventure.
Download or read book Fire Road written by Kim Phuc Phan Thi and published by NavPress. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get out! Run! We must leave this place! They are going to destroy this whole place! Go, children, run first! Go now! These were the final shouts nine year-old Kim Phuc heard before her world dissolved into flames—before napalm bombs fell from the sky, burning away her clothing and searing deep into her skin. It’s a moment forever captured, an iconic image that has come to define the horror and violence of the Vietnam War. Kim was left for dead in a morgue; no one expected her to survive the attack. Napalm meant fire, and fire meant death. Against all odds, Kim lived—but her journey toward healing was only beginning. When the napalm bombs dropped, everything Kim knew and relied on exploded along with them: her home, her country’s freedom, her childhood innocence and happiness. The coming years would be marked by excruciating treatments for her burns and unrelenting physical pain throughout her body, which were constant reminders of that terrible day. Kim survived the pain of her body ablaze, but how could she possibly survive the pain of her devastated soul? Fire Road is the true story of how she found the answer in a God who suffered Himself; a Savior who truly understood and cared about the depths of her pain. Fire Road is a story of horror and hope, a harrowing tale of a life changed in an instant—and the power and resilience that can only be found in the power of God’s mercy and love.
Download or read book Collection of Selected Caodai Holy Messages written by Hum D. Bui and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-20 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the translation of the holy teachings of CaoDai, a new faith founded in Vietnam, with the goal to unite all religions in harmony and peace. CaoDai believes that all religions have the same divine origin, have the same ethic based on true love and the golden rule, and are just different manifestations of the same truth. CaoDai is a unique religion originating in Southeast Asia, which recognizes God as Source of the Universe and all souls, origin of all religions, Who manifested differently in different epochs and is called by myriad Names. CaoDai is a universal religion, which considers all religions One. It teaches human beings, who all have sprung from the same Source, to live in harmony, love, justice and peace; to enjoy universal sisterhood and brotherhood; and to cultivate themselves to seek and be reunited with God in their hearts. CaoDai propounds that God has come and expressed Himself in a new Way, Dai Dao Tam Ky Pho Do (The Third Salvation Of The Great Way), or the CaoDai religion, in 1926 in Vietnam. The immediate goal of CaoDai is to show human beings that all religions have indeed one same origin and one same principle, which is love and justice. If human beings would stop discriminating against each other because of difference in religions and treat each other with true love and justice (Do unto others as you would have them do unto you), there would soon be unity of all religions with religious understanding and tolerance, and subsequently harmony between humanity and peace on earth. The full name of the Supreme Being is Cao Dai Tien Ong Dai Bo Tat Ma Ha Tat, in which CaoDai originates from Confucianism that means the Supreme Being, Tien Ong means Immortals, Dai Bo Tat Ma Ha Tat means the great Buddha. The whole name of the Supreme Being embraces the three main religions of the East.In 1926, the Supreme Being gave the following message: Nhien Dang Co Phat (an old time Buddha) is Me, Sakya Muni is Me, Thai Thuong Nguon Thi (an old time Immortal) is Me, Who is Cao Dai. In founding CaoDai, the Supreme Being teaches man to realize that all religions have one same origin, and not to discriminate against each other but to love each other as brother and sister, to cultivate self to find God in one's heart.A spiritual message has said: "Out of Love and Mercy, out of respect for life, I have founded the Great Way's Third Revelation to save the earthly human, to help the virtuous attain a world of peace and avoid reincarnation to the earthly world of suffering." CaoDai offers two ways of practice: 1. Exoterism or cultivation according to humanism: a CaoDai disciple, while conducting a normal family life is: a. to complete duties toward self, family, society, country, living beings, and nature. b. to practice good and avoid evil. c. to show kindness to nature, plants, animals, human beings, and to avoid unnecessary destruction of any creature, recognizing that they all have the Supreme Being's spirit and are part of nature's cycle. d. to observe five Precepts: do not kill, do not steal, do not commit adultery, do not get drunk, do not sin by word. e. to practice vegetarianism at least ten days per month. This is a way to purify one's body and spirit and to promote love by avoiding killing living beings. f. to participate in ritual acts of devotion and worship to the Supreme Being. There are four daily ceremonies, at 6:00 a.m., noon, 6:00 p.m., and midnight. At least one ceremony per day at home is performed.2. Esoterism: While a disciple performs his duties toward humanity and ispracticing vegetarianism for at least ten days per month, he may be guided in the practice of esoterism with meditation as a major exercise. The goal is to progressively eradicate the inferior self and develop the divine element within the self, reaching toward oneness with the Supreme Being.
Download or read book Text and Context in the Modern History of Chinese Religions written by Philip Clart and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-02-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text and Context in the Modern History of Chinese Religions is an edited volume (Philip Clart, David Ownby, and Wang Chien-ch’uan) offering essays on the modern history of redemptive societies in China and Vietnam, with a particular focus on their textual production.
Download or read book The Divine Eye and the Diaspora written by Janet Alison Hoskins and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2015-02-28 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the relationship between syncretism and diaspora? Caodaism is a large but almost unknown new religion that provides answers to this question. Born in Vietnam during the struggles of decolonization, shattered and spatially dispersed by cold war conflicts, it is now reshaping the goals of its four million followers. Colorful and strikingly eclectic, its “outrageous syncretism” incorporates Chinese, Buddhist, and Western religions as well as world figures like Victor Hugo, Jeanne d’Arc, Vladimir Lenin, and (in the USA) Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism. The book looks at the connections between “the age of revelations” (1925-1934) in French Indochina and the “age of diaspora” (1975-present) when many Caodai leaders and followers went into exile. Structured in paired biographies to trace relations between masters and disciples, now separated by oceans, it focuses on five members of the founding generation and their followers or descendants in California, showing the continuing obligation to honor those who forged the initial vision to “bring the gods of the East and West together.” Diasporic congregations in California have interacted with New Age ideas and stereotypes of a “Walt Disney fantasia of the East,” at the same time that temples in Vietnam have re-opened their doors after decades of severe restrictions. Caodaism forces us to reconsider how anthropologists study religious mixtures in postcolonial settings. Its dynamics challenge the unconscious Eurocentrism of our notions of how religions are bounded and conceptualized.
Download or read book The Path of a Cao Dai Disciple written by Nguyên Long Thành and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Quiet American written by Graham Greene and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “masterful . . . brilliantly constructed novel” of love and chaos in 1950s Vietnam (Zadie Smith, The Guardian). It’s 1955 and British journalist Thomas Fowler has been in Vietnam for two years covering the insurgency against French colonial rule. But it’s not just a political tangle that’s kept him tethered to the country. There’s also his lover, Phuong, a young Vietnamese woman who clings to Fowler for protection. Then comes Alden Pyle, an idealistic American working in service of the CIA. Devotedly, disastrously patriotic, he believes neither communism nor colonialism is what’s best for Southeast Asia, but rather a “Third Force”: American democracy by any means necessary. His ideas of conquest include Phuong, to whom he promises a sweet life in the states. But as Pyle’s blind moral conviction wreaks havoc upon innocent lives, it’s ultimately his romantic compulsions that will play a role in his own undoing. Although criticized upon publication as anti-American, Graham Greene’s “complex but compelling story of intrigue and counter-intrigue” would, in a few short years, prove prescient in its own condemnation of American interventionism (The New York Times).
Download or read book Caodaism written by Nguyên-phan-Long and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Brief Introduction to Caodaism written by Tuy Ngoc Trinh and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Caodai Spiritism written by Oliver and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary Material /Victor L. Oliver -- Préface /Victor L. Oliver -- Acknowledgments /Victor L. Oliver -- Introduction /Victor L. Oliver -- The Historical Roots of Caodaism /Victor L. Oliver -- The Establishment of Caodaism /Victor L. Oliver -- Tay Ninh and The Chieu Minh Tam Thanh /Victor L. Oliver -- The Development of Caodai Sectarianism /Victor L. Oliver -- Attempts at Reunification /Victor L. Oliver -- Conclusion /Victor L. Oliver -- Appendix I /Victor L. Oliver -- Bibliography /Victor L. Oliver.
Download or read book The First Vietnam War written by Shawn F. McHale and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shawn McHale explores why the communist-led resistance in Vietnam won the anticolonial war against France (1945–54), except in the south. He shows how broad swaths of Vietnamese people were uneasily united in 1945 under the Viet Minh Resistance banner, all opposing the French attempt to reclaim control of the country. By 1947, resistance unity had shattered and Khmer-Vietnamese ethnic violence had divided the Mekong delta. From this point on, the war in the south turned into an overt civil war wrapped up in a war against France. Based on extensive archival research in four countries and in three languages, this is the first substantive English-language book focused on southern Vietnam's transition from colonialism to independence.
Download or read book The Religions of South Vietnam in Faith and Fact written by United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel and published by Washington. This book was released on 1967 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vietnamese American Catholics written by Peter C. Phan and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With the first book in this new series from Paulist Press, Fr. Peter C. Phan presents the history of Christianity in Vietnam, the conditions of Vietnamese Catholics in America, the challenges facing Vietnamese-American Catholics today, and suggestions on how to meet them."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book The Cao Dai a new religious movement written by Sergei Blagov and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rebel Den of Nung Tr Cao written by James A. Anderson and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rebel Den of Nung Tri Cao examines the rebellion of the eleventh-century Tai chieftain Nung Tri Cao (ca. 1025-1055), whose struggle for independence along Vietnam's mountainous northern frontier was a pivotal event in Sino-Vietnamese relations. Tri Cao's revolt occurred during Vietnam's earliest years of independence from China and would prove to be a vital test of the Vietnamese court's ability to confront local political challenges and maintain harmony with its powerful northern neighbor. Tri Cao established his first kingdom in 1042, at the age of seventeen, but was captured by Vietnamese troops. After his release in 1048, he announced the founding of a second kingdom, but an attack by Vietnamese forces drove him to flee into Chinese territory. Tri Cao made his final attempt in 1052, proclaiming a new kingdom and leading thousands of his subjects in a revolt that swept across the South China coast. But within a year, Chinese imperial troops had forced him to flee to the nearest independent kingdom. Official Chinese and Vietnamese accounts of the rebel leader's end vary: according to the Chinese, the ruler of the independent kingdom had Tri Cao executed, but in popular accounts, Tri Cao was granted safe passage into northern Thailand, where his descendants are said to flourish today. Scholar James Anderson places Tri Cao in context by exploring the Sino-Vietnamese tributary relationship and the conflicts that engaged both the Song and Vietnamese courts. The Rebel Den of Nung Tri Cao reconstructs the series of negotiations that took place between border communities and representatives of the imperial courts, examining the ways in which Tai and other ethnic groups deftly navigated the unstable political situation that followed the demise of China's cosmopolitan Tang dynasty. Though his rebellion was ill-fated, Tri Cao is, almost a thousand years later, still worshipped in temples along the Sino-Vietnamese border, and his memory provides a point of unity for people who have become separated by modern political boundaries.
