Vietnamese New Religion Scriptures

Vietnam is home to two indigenous new religious movements that arose in the twentieth century alongside the country's older Buddhist, Confucian, Taoist and Catholic traditions: the syncretic Cao Dai faith and the quasi-Buddhist Hoa Hao movement. This group gathers each movement's own canonical scripture: Tan Luat, the Cao Dai Canonical Codes setting out the new religion's constitution and religious law as codified by its early leadership in the 1920s, and Sam Giang, the collected poems and prophecies of Huynh Phu So, founder of the Hoa Hao movement, first delivered in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Both texts function as the founding scriptural authority for their respective movements and are recognized by religious-studies scholarship as belonging to Vietnam's distinct tradition of home-grown new religions rather than being imports of an older continental canon.