Aum Shinrikyo
Also known as Aleph
Japanese cult and terrorist organization
Key facts
- Type
- Japanese new religious movement
- Classification
- Buddhist new religious movement
- Orientation
- Dharmic
- Theology
- Western millenarianism /millennialism (formerly)
- Structure
- Yoga meetings
- Region
- Japan
- Founder
- Shoko Asahara
- Origin
- 1987 ; 39 years ago ( 1987 ) , Tokyo , Japan
- Separations
- Hikari no Wa (2008), Yamada's Club, Keroyon Club
- Members
- Approximately 1,650 (2011)
- Other names
- Aum Shinrikyo ( オウム真理教 , Ōmu Shinrikyō ) (1984–2007)
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Aleph (Japanese: アレフ, Hepburn: Arefu), better known by their former name Aum Shinrikyo (オウム真理教, Ōmu Shinrikyō; lit. 'religion of Aum Supreme Truth'), is a Japanese new religious movement and doomsday cult founded by Shoko Asahara in 1987. It carried out the deadly Tokyo subway sarin attack in 1995 and was then found to have been responsible for the Matsumoto sarin attack the previous year.
The group says that those who carried out the attacks did so secretly, without their plans being known to other executives and ordinary believers. Asahara insisted on his innocence in a radio broadcast relayed from Russia and directed toward Japan.
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