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Shoko Asahara, born Chizuo Matsumoto, founded Aum Shinrikyo in 1987.

How a yoga studio turned into a doomsday cult that drank blood

PARK CITY, Utah โ€” In the 1980s, Shoko Asahara recruited young Japanese men and women to his little yoga and meditation group. By 1995, the man had devolved into a dangerous cult leader, selling vials of his own blood for followers to drink, and acquiring and manufacturing weapons of mass...

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