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Caodaism
Cao Dai is a ‘home-grown’ religion based mostly in the South of Vietnam. Its centre of operations is the Cao Dai Holy See, in Tay Ninh, about 100km from Ho Chi Minh City. It is a large complex containing a school, an agricultural co-operative, a hospital and other useful buildings, all dominated by a big and ...
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Christianity
Christianity enters Vietnam Christianity was introduced to Vietnam within the 16th century by missionaries from Europe’s main Catholic evangelist international locations, France, Spain and Portugal. One of the early arrivals was Alexander de Rhodes, a French Jesuit who significantly impressed the Trinh lords who ruled the north at that time, thus easing the best ...
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Confucianism
Confucianism’s originator, Kuang Fu Tzu (Latinized to Confucius), was an official within the Chinese court. During his lifetime (around 500 BC), China had damaged into rival states fighting for supremacy. Confucius, comparing the turm oil of the life of the people with the formalised rituals of the court, set about creating a code to manage social ...
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Shamanism
The shaman A shaman is an middleman between humankind and the spirit world, occupying a role just like that of a priest: a spiritual specialist, possessing the ability to speak with spirits, to enchantment to them to dispel evil, to explain turns of fat e, and to transmit the directions of spirits. She or ...
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Taoism
The glue that binds the weather of the ‘tam giao’ – the triple religion Taoism is believed to have originated in China with a person named Lao Tzu at around 500 B.C. The legend says that Lao Tzu was so “saddened by his folk’s disinclination to cultivate the pure goodness he advocated” that hedecided ...
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Different Religions
Hinduism Funan and Oc EO Much of the early history of the southern a part of Vietnam is intently related to India. In the course of the first century AD, Indian retailers voyaging to China established Hindu outposts en route, one in every of which was on the southern coast of Vietnam, close ...
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Vietnam’s Culture
Influences which have formed the best way we expect and behave A short overview of the building blocks of Vietnam’s cultural heritage The Chinese language legacy The roots of Vietnam’s culture are firmly bedded in a thousand years of Chinese domination; however other influences have helped to shape Vietnam’s mental achievements and means ...
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Attitudes
Correct behavior For Vietnamese individuals, appropriate behavior is outlined by Confucian precepts. Prior to now, the rules had been noticed to the letter. For example, in an age when polygamy was the norm, a lady’s subjugation was absolute, first to her father, then to her husband, and finally (if she was widowed), to her ...
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Social Customs
Customs and Beliefs In the past, and even immediately, a conventional Vietnamese particular person would comply with most or all of the following traditions and precepts: The Family · The household is the basis of society, not the individual · Three to 4 generations often live collectively in a single residence · ...
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Festivals
A calendar full of festivals Life in Vietnam is a succession of major and minor festivals, principally based mostly on the lunar calendar – there may be seldom a day when the festival calendar is blank. Local festivals The minor festivals are largely both spiritual, primarily based upon pagodas and temples, or ...
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