CaoDaiTemple

10 MARCH 2006 - TAY NINH, VIETNAM: Priests and congregants file into the Cao Dai temple in Tay Ninh before noon prayers. The Cao Dai complex in Tay Ninh is the sect's headquarters. The Cao Dai religion is a blending of Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Christianity and Islam. There "saints" include Chinese leader Sun Yat Sen and French author Victor Hugo. There are about two million members of the Cao Dai religion in Vietnam. British author Graham Greene, who wrote about the Cao Dai in the "The Quiet American" said the relegion was "a Walt Disney fantasia of the East." The Cao Dai hold services four times a day: midnight, 6AM, noon and 6PM. Photo by Jack Kurtz / ZUMA Press

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10 MARCH 2006 - TAY NINH, VIETNAM: Priests and congregants file into the Cao Dai temple in Tay Ninh before noon prayers. The Cao Dai complex in Tay Ninh is the sect's headquarters. The Cao Dai religion is a blending of Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Christianity and Islam. There "saints" include Chinese leader Sun Yat Sen and French author Victor Hugo. There are about two million members of the Cao Dai religion in Vietnam. British author Graham Greene, who wrote about the Cao Dai in the "The Quiet American" said the relegion was "a Walt Disney fantasia of the East." The Cao Dai hold services four times a day: midnight, 6AM, noon and 6PM. Photo by Jack Kurtz / ZUMA Press