PHILIPPE NGO

Philippe Ngo, Phd in Artificial Intelligence, has had a great interest in exorcism during his study of science. Working as a research scientist at Computer Science Laboratory of Tours (France) in cooperation with BNF (National Library of France – BiBibliothèque Nationale de France), he conducted research on the digitization of old and precious documents of human culture in a project name DIGIDOC funded by ANR (French National Research Agency – Agence National de Recherche). BNF has the finest gallery of Tarot and Oracle in the world. Thanks to this project, he has been attracted by Tarot and Cartomancy amongst many other branches of exorcism. He has had also a bachelor of Laws (University of Tra Vinh, Vietnam) and a bachelor of Buddhism Philosophy (Vietnam Buddhism University).

Philippe is now the lecturer at the South Can Tho University in Vietnam. He is also the vice-director of Culture and Social Department of UNESCO Centre for Humane Science and Community. He is also the director of International Relations Department of the Institute of Developmental Philosophy in Vietnam.

Philippe is known as the founder of Tarot Huyen Bi Community, which has been the largest community of tarot research in Vietnam since 2012. Moreover, the website of Tarot Huyen Bi Community is the largest Vietnamese database on tarot research. He is now the author of many books on tarot and other fortune telling arts. Working in conjunction with many Vietnamese tarot authors in the world (living in France, Japan, Taiwan, China and the USA), he has created the Tarot Huyen Bi Book Series Project (later renamed to Tarot Viet Books) to provide the tarot guide, and to create the tarot decks and plenty of tarot events in Vietnam.

Visit the website of Tarot Huyen Bi Community at www.tarothuyenbi.info

Philippe is also the founder of The Museum of Tarot, in which he started his exorcist antique collection in 2007. The Museum of Tarot was officially founded in 2016 and is located in Can Tho City, in the south of Vietnam. It is a combination of six main collections related to Art of Cartomancy: Fortune Telling Cards (Tarot and Oracles decks), Books and Historical Documents about Fortune Telling Cards, Art of Cardmaking and Decoration of Fortune Telling Cards (Tarot and Oracle), Art of Magic and Divination tools, Lithotherapy Stones and Crystals. This museum has a wide range of objects dated from 17th century to 21th century.

Visit the website of The Museum of Tarot at www.museum-tarot.org

Philippe is also the founder of Tarot Mystery Magazine, two pioneering tarot magazine of the tarot community in Vietnam. Currently it is the only tarot magazine in Vietnamese. He is also the founder of Tarology Magazine, the official magazine of the Museum of Tarot and Oracle in Vietnam. This magazine is the only tarot magazine in the South East Asian community. Many international well-known tarot authors and artists have contributed to the magazine.

Visit the website of Tarot Mystery Magazine at magazine.tarothuyenbi.info and Tarology Magazine at magazine.museum-tarot.org

Philippe is also the author of many decks: Tarot of Jesus The Christ, Totom Tarot, Vietnamese Tarot (Ao Dai Tarot), TarotRubik, ...

Visit the website of Vietnamese Tarot at www.vietnamesetarot.com