View allAll Photos Tagged tayninh
On a day trip out of Ho Chi Minh city we visited the "Great Temple of the Holy See" for Cao Daoist followers, just outside Tay Ninh. The religion was founded in 1926 under the principle that all religions have the same divine origin.
- There are 2/3 million Cao Daoiists in Vietnam
- God is symbolised within the religion by a divine eye.
- One of the 3 principal saints of Cao Daoism is Victor Hugo
The robes of the priests symbolise their spiritual allegiance:
Yellow - Buddhism and virtue
Blue - Taoism and pacifism
Red - Confucianism and authority
This military policeman guards the entrance to the Tay Ninh provincial army compound. There is no longer a gate at this location facing the river.
Bride & Groom: Mỹ Linh, Hoàng Ninh
Photographer: Đăng Thiện (Dolphin Li)
Made by Ồ studio | www.opro.vn
Location: Hồ Dầu Tiếng
...................................................................
Mọi chi tiết về chụp ảnh, vui lòng liên hệ
Phone: 0914.919110 (Đăng Thiện)
Email: yeucaheo@gmail.com
Địa chỉ: 21 Đặng Dung, Phường Tân Định, Quận 1, TP.HCM
...................................................................
If you have a Facebook, go ahead and like Ồ Production page!
Thanks!
Copyright © 2015 Ồ Production. All rights reserved.
A US Army de Havilland Caribou (DHC-4) landing at the Tay Ninh city airport. This was a steel plank (PSP) runway, about 2000 feet long located along what is now called 30/4 Street immediately north of the intersection with Cach Mang. Few people today remember an airport here, but it is commemorated in the name of a coffee shop along the street. The runway is long gone, but the PSP lives on as sides for sugar cane harvest trailers.
Here is what this looked like in 2012:
www.flickr.com/photos/mildewrabbit/16596432606/in/photost...
The air strip was located half way between Tay Ninh and Katum at the Cambodian border, in the middle of nowhere. Notice the orange barrels scattered around. Agent Orange was heavily sprayed in the area. Photo by Frank Thomas Goins (Tom),
Passed by this French colonial villa after leaving Tay Ninh base camp on our way to Nui Ba Den and French Fort. Looks so peaceful, you wouldn't know there was a war going on. Photo by Frank Thomas Goins (Tom).
Faithfuls at a noon prayer session at the Cao Đài temple in Tây Ninh Holy See, Vietnam October 6, 2013. Photo by Tim Chong
A battered old bus refuels at the Shell station. The cinema to the right is still there but is out of business.
Family members owned & operated this gas station at what was (and still is) the busiest corner in Tay Ninh, near Cao Dai temple gate number 2. Cousin Loi at the gas pump.
Vietnam.
Tây Ninh Province.
This is a shortened version.
COMPLETE VIDEO CAN BE VIEWED ON YOU TUBE
From Wikipedia.
Cao Đài (Vietnamese: [kāːw ɗâːj] , also Caodaiism) is a relatively modern syncretistic, monotheistic religion, officially established in the city of Tây Ninh, southern Vietnam in 1926. Due to its young age, it shows its syncretistic roots more than older religions. Đạo Cao Đài is the religion's shortened name; its full name is Đại Đạo Tam Kỳ Phổ Độ (Great Religion [of The] Third Period [of] Revelation [and] Salvation).
Cao means "high" and Đài means "dais" (as in a platform or altar raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it). Figuratively, it means that highest spiritual place where God reigns. Caodaiists often use the term Đức Cao Đài (Venerable Cao Đài) as the abbreviated name for God, the creator of the universe, whose full title is Cao Đài Tiên Ông Đại Bồ Tát Ma-ha-tát (translation: Cao Đài [the] Ancient Sage [and] Great Bodhisattva Mahasattva). According to Caodaiists, the full title was purposefully chosen by God because within it are representations of the Three Teachings: Saint, Sage and Buddha. Caodaiists credit God as the religion's founder. They believe the teachings, symbolism and organization were communicated directly from God. Even the construction of the Tây Ninh Holy See is claimed to have had divine guidance. Cao Đài's first disciples, Ngô Văn Chiêu, Cao Quỳnh Cư, Phạm Công Tắc and Cao Hoài Sang, claimed to have received direct communications from God, who gave them explicit instructions for establishing a new religion that would commence the Third Era of Religious Amnesty.
Adherents engage in ethical practices such as prayer, veneration of ancestors, nonviolence, and vegetarianism with the minimum goal of rejoining God the Father in Heaven and the ultimate goal of freedom from the cycle of birth and death. Estimates of Cao Đài adherents in Vietnam vary, but most sources give two to three million, according to other sources up to six million.
Confucianism is an ancient Chinese ethical and philosophical system originally developed from the teachings of the early Chinese philosopher Confucius. It focuses on human morality and good deeds. Confucianism is a complex system of moral, social, political, philosophical, and quasi-religious thought that has had tremendous influence on the culture and history of East Asia. Some consider it to be the state religion of East Asian countries because of governmental promotion of Confucian values.
This is the Holy See of Caodaism in the south Vietnamese city of Tây Ninh.
Caodaism (Đạo Cao Đài in Vietnamese) is a monotheistic religion officially established in the city of Tây Ninh in southern Vietnam in 1926. The full name of the religion is Đại Đạo Tam Kỳ Phổ Độ (The Great Faith for the Third Universal Redemption). The faith incorporates elements of Buddhism, Christianity, French 18th-century philosophy, and traditional Vietnamese beliefs.
Cao Đài, literally the "Highest Lord" or "Highest Power," is the supreme deity, believed by Caodaists to have created the universe. The symbol of the faith is the Left Eye of God, representing the yang (masculine, ordaining, positive and expansive) activity of the male creator, which is balanced by the yin (âm) activity of Mother Goddess, the Queen Mother of the West (Diêu Trì Kim Mẫu, Tây Vương Mẫu), the feminine, nurturing and restorative mother of humanity.
Adherents engage in practices such as prayer, veneration of ancestors, nonviolence and vegetarianism with the goal of union with God and freedom from saṃsāra. Estimates of the number of Caodaists in Vietnam vary; government figures estimate 4.4 million Caodaists affiliated to the Tây Ninh church, with numbers rising up to 6 million if other branches are added. An additional number of adherents in the tens of thousands, primarily ethnic Vietnamese, live in North America, Europe, and Australia. The design, shape and coloring of Caodaist temples is quite standard around the world and includes the incorporation of sacred images, symbols, and colors.
Information, in part, from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caodaism
Ninety kilometres north-west of Ho Chi Minh City (commonly known as Saigon) Vietman in Tây-Ninh Province is the Caodaist (Cao Đài) religion’s Holy See. The Great Divine Temple built between 1933 and 1955, like the religion, is a fusion of world influences. As well as being a major centre of pilgrimage, the Caodaist Holy See is also one of Vietnam's major tourist attractions and shown here midday mass is taking place
In the 1960's Tay Ninh had an Army landing strip located along what is now 30/4 Street. This is now a wide tree lined boulevard with banks, insurance companies and a TV station.
Southwest side of Nui BaDen. Picture taken somewhere between Dau Tieng and Tay Ninh. Photo by Frank Thomas Goins (Tom).
In 1965 the old downtown Tay Ninh was a thriving business district. There were restaurants, all sorts of shops and the market was a block away. A variation on the motor cyclo is the little passenger trailer hauled by motorbike.
M113 4th squad track 34 ahead, leaving Boi Loi Woods and heading up to Tay Ninh. Nui Ba Den, The Black Virgin Mountain in the distance. Photo by Frank Thomas Goins (Tom).