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Yes, Cao Dai is an active, vibrant religion with an estimated 3.2 to 4.4 million practitioners globally. It stands as the third-largest organized religion in Vietnam, practiced primarily in the southern Mekong Delta region. Due to the Vietnamese diaspora, active Cao Dai temple communities can also be found in the United States (particularly California and Texas), Australia, France, and Canada.
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What is Cao Dai?The religion of Cao Dai started in the late 1920s in Tay Ninh, a city in southern Vietnam. Concepts include a single god (Cao Dai means "high place," where the god reins). The religion is said to, "create a more tolerant world where all can see each other as sisters and brothers from a common divine source." This religion believes that God was born after a "big bang," and then created the universe using the concept of yin and yang. In addition to God, there is the goddess he created that is known as Mother Buddha.