Aum Shinrikyo

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese オウム真理教 (Ōmu Shinrikyō).

Proper noun

Aum Shinrikyo

  1. A Japanese doomsday cult founded in 1987 known for perpetrating sarin attacks in 1994 and 1995.
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