Path: shell.portal.com!svc.portal.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!globe.indirect.com!s11.phxslip4.indirect.com!lima From: lima@indirect.com (Peter J. Lima) Newsgroups: alt.magick.tyagi,alt.religion.buddhism.tibetan,talk.religion.buddhism,alt.evil,alt.satanism,talk.religion.misc,soc.culture.tibet Subject: Re: RB: Aum Sect and Tantrik Buddhism Date: Sat, 4 May 1996 03:40:55 UNDEFINED Organization: Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <4mbo8u$i3a@jobe.shell.portal.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: s11.phxslip4.indirect.com X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev B final beta #1] Xref: shell.portal.com alt.magick.tyagi:7988 alt.religion.buddhism.tibetan:7812 talk.religion.buddhism:20255 alt.evil:25390 alt.satanism:42715 talk.religion.misc:217219 In article <4mbo8u$i3a@jobe.shell.portal.com> nagasiva@yronwode.com (nagasiva) writes: >In article , >Mogg Morgan wrote: >>Any comments on the recent article on the 'Aum' sect by >>Murray Sayle in _Mail on Sunday Review_ (UK) April 14th >>1996. >>quote: >>'Was there any genuine religion in Aum sect's version of >>Buddhism, which itself teaches compassion for all living >>beings? Scholars have argued that an obscure form, Tantric >>Buddhism, holds that killing potential evildoers, by >>relieving them of their burdens of sin and bad karma, earns >>religious merit for the killer.' p. 12 >>Is this a scholarly view of Tantrik Buddhism?. It certainly >>does not accord with my own experience of modern day >>exponents of the Tantrik way. conspire@webcom.com has a few web pages devoted to a (sardonic) analysis of the Shoko Asahara (born Chizuzu Matsumoto) and the Aum Shinri Kyo sect ("Japan's most wanted guru finds it's time to wake up and smell the gas"). E-mail them for the URL. Interesting connections are hinted at between Aum Shinrikyo, the Unification Church of Korea, the KCIA, and the Japanese military. pjl