English Explanatory Dictionary

Aum Shinrikyo

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

Aum Shinrikyo

Etymology

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

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