A two-hour PBS documentary produced by WETA Washington, D.C. and broadcast nationally on 7 April 2004, following three Americans to their ancestral homelands. In the segment devoted to journalist Andrew Lam, he travels to Tay Ninh province, Vietnam, to visit his great-grandfather's tomb and the Cao Dai Holy See, the religion's central temple. The segment describes Cao Dai as a syncretic faith founded in 1926 by Ngo Van Chieu that worships Buddha and Jesus Christ together and venerates secular figures including Victor Hugo and Chiang Kai-shek as saints, and records Lam's own great-grandfather's donations to the temple.
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Production
Release Year DirectorRenee Tajima-Pena; Lourdes Portillo 1 Subject Matter
Religious Subject MatterCao Dai, filmed at its own Tay Ninh Holy See temple and named outright in the broadcaster's own segment text. 1 Connections
Associated With
This source names Holy See directly: "tomb and the Cao Dai Holy See, the religion's central temple."
Source My Journey Home, PBS Records (WETA, 2004)
This source names Ngo Van Chieu directly: "a syncretic faith founded in 1926 by Ngo Van Chieu that worships Buddha and Jesus Christ together and venerates secular figures including Victor Hugo and Chiang Kai-shek as saints, and records Lam's..."
Source My Journey Home, PBS Records (WETA, 2004)
This source names Washington directly: "PBS documentary produced by WETA Washington, D.C."
Source My Journey Home, PBS Records (WETA, 2004)
Depicts
PBS's own segment page documents a visit to the Cao Dai Holy See at Tay Ninh and names Cao Dai outright throughout, describing its founding, its syncretic worship and its veneration of secular saints.
Source My Journey Home, PBS Records (WETA, 2004)
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1. My Journey Home, PBS Records (WETA, 2004)
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