Aum Shinrikyo

British  

/ ˈəʊm ˌʃɪnrɪˈkjəʊ /

noun

1. Also called: Supreme Truth Cult.  a syncretistic Japanese cult combining elements of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity, founded by Shoko Asahara in 1986; responsible for a number of murders and in particular a nerve-gas attack on the Tokyo underground in 1995

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Etymology

Origin of Aum Shinrikyo

C20: from Sanskrit aum _om + Japanese shinri kyo supreme truth

Example Sentences

The organizations include the Basque separatist group ETA , the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo, the radical Jewish group Kahane Kach and two Islamic groups that have been active in Israel, the Palestinian territories and Egypt.

From Seattle Times • May 15, 2022

The government did not target religious groups or ban Aum Shinrikyo, and the cult ultimately disintegrated on its own.

From Slate • May 17, 2021

In the mid-1990s, Happy Science’s rivalry with another doomsday group, Aum Shinrikyo, took an ugly turn.

From New York Times • Apr. 16, 2020

The Aum Shinrikyo cult members were not ordinary people, in that they were seeking some kind of truth or absolute truth.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 10, 2019

The same syndrome affected one victim of the Aum Shinrikyo cult's sarin terrorism, says Bahie Abou-Donia, a neurobiologist at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 4, 2018