Editing Shoko Asahara (section)

===Establishment===
{{nihongo|Aum Shinrikyo|オウム真理教|Oumu Shinrikyō|extra=literally 'Supreme Truth'|lead=yes}}, later named {{nihongo|Aleph|アレフ|Arefu||lead=no}}, was founded by Asahara in his one-bedroom apartment in [[Tokyo]]'s [[Shibuya]] ward in 1987, starting off as a [[yoga]] and [[meditation]] class<ref>{{cite book|title=Wolves Within the Fold: Religious Leadership and Abuses of Power|last=Shupe|first=Anson D.|year=1998|publisher=[[Rutgers University Press]]|isbn=978-0-8135-2489-4|page=34}}</ref> known as {{nihongo|''Oumu Shinsen no Kai''|オウム神仙の会|"Aum [[Xian (Taoism)|Immortal Mountain Wizard]] Association"}} and steadily grew in the following years. It gained official status as a [[religious organization]] in 1989 and attracted a considerable number of graduates from Japan's elite universities, thus being dubbed a "religion for the elite".<ref name=controversial>{{cite book|title=Controversial New Religions|url=https://archive.org/details/controversialnew00lewi|url-access=limited|last=Lewis|first=James R.|author2=Jesper Aagaard Petersen|year=2005|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|isbn=978-0-19-515683-6|page=[https://archive.org/details/controversialnew00lewi/page/n174 162]}}</ref>