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Shoko Asahara promised to lead his followers to salvation

Shoko Asahara, with his flowing beard and long hair, seemed a somewhat unlikely messianic figure when the Aum Shinrikyo cult released deadly sarin gas onto the Tokyo underground in

Asahara claimed to be a reincarnation of the Hindu god Shiva, and promised to lead his followers to salvation when impending Armageddon arrived.

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He was born Chizuo Matsumoto, one of seven children, in the city of Yatsushiro in March

Almost blind, he attended a special school from which he graduated in

Having failed to win a place at university, Matsumoto began a career in Chinese medicine before turning to new age philosophy and an eclectic mix of spiritual ideas.

After a pilgrimage to the Himalayas in he changed his own name to Shoko Asahara and the name of a group he had founded to Aum Shinrikyo. Aum is a sacred Hindu symbol and Shinrikyo means "supreme truth".

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