Encyclopedia.com's excerpted entries drawn from the Encyclopedia of Religion (Robert S. Ellwood) and the New Catholic Encyclopedia, giving Cao Dai's founding by Ngo Van Chieu, its Divine Eye symbolism and describing the Tay Ninh "cathedral" as a highly eclectic edifice patterned after St. Peter's Basilica in Rome and fusing Buddhist, Daoist, Confucian and Roman Catholic architectural elements.
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PublisherEncyclopedia.com, excerpting Macmillan's Encyclopedia of Religion and the New Catholic Encyclopedia
URLhttps://www.encyclopedia.com/philosophy-and-religion/other-religious-beliefs-and-general-terms/miscellaneous-religion/cao-dai
Source Typeencyclopedia
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Reliability Tier2
Tier two: excerpted entries from two edited academic reference works (the Encyclopedia of Religion and the New Catholic Encyclopedia), used here to independently corroborate the founding date, founder and architectural description. Connections
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This source names Ngo Van Chieu directly: "giving Cao Dai's founding by Ngo Van Chieu, its Divine Eye symbolism and describing the Tay Ninh "cathedral" as a highly eclectic edifice patterned after St."
Source Cao Dai (Encyclopedia.com, excerpting the Encyclopedia of Religion and New Catholic Encyclopedia)
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This source backs 6 claims across the atlas. As facts: 5 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds.
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- Sources, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds.
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