The all-seeing eye
This All-Seeing Eye, framed in a triangle surrounded by sun rays and carved lotus blossoms, is displayed in the Cao Dai temple at Tay Ninh. (Learn more)
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Cao literally means high, while Dai means tower, palace, or abode. The combined verbal image is used to represent both a heavenly place and a Supreme Being envisioned as creating all religions and beings on the earth. The visual symbol used by Cao Dai followers for this Supreme Being is an all-seeing eye.
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Photographs by Margery Freeman · Text by Lorraine Aragon
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