Aumism
As Aumimus (French: Aumisme ) refers to a religious faith, which was founded in 1969 by Gilbert Bourdin (1924-1998). This sect has its center of faith in its "holy city" Mandarom , a settlement with up to 1200 and an average of 400 members near the town of Castellane in the French Alps . Aumism is a combination of different beliefs, especially from Buddhism . The name "Aumismus" is based on the onomatopoeic " Aum " ( Ommm ), which is used in Buddhist and Hindu meditations. The French Aumism sect has no relationship whatsoever with the Japanese Aum sect ( Ōmu Shinrikyō ), which gained worldwide fame in 1995 through a poison gas attack on the Tokyo subway.
Basics
The basics of Aumism are summarized in five truths:
- Death is a change of being, a gate that opens. Death in the future golden age means "evolution".
- Suffering arises from the fear of forward development and of regression. He who does not suffer does not understand.
- Pain drives our mind. Correctly understood, through him we take a great step towards God. Badly understood, it leads us straight to hell.
- Evolution is the school of life with painful limitations and difficult trials. Part of the law of evolution is that every living being must set itself the goal of reaching a higher level.
- The aim of existence is to reproduce one's divinity and to overcome the four eternity; to attain the state of Darpana Buddha, a liberated being; and attain the diamond eternity.
Mandarom Shambhasalem
The French Gilbert Bordin, also known as Hamsah Manarah, the self-proclaimed "Cosmoplanetary Messiah of Synthesis", founded the holy city of " Mandarom Shambhasalem " about 50 km northwest of Cannes on a mountainside above the Verdon Valley in 1969. Within a short time a number of temples and statues were erected in Mandarom, including a 22 m high statue of Buddha Maitreya (1981), a 21 m high statue of the "Cosmic Christ" with sword and shield (1987), and another 33 m tall statue of Bourdin himself (1990). The legality of the building permit for the Bourdin statue was later questioned and revoked in 2000 after a long litigation. When the statue was torn down on September 6, 2001 against violent protests by members of the faith, they compared the demolition to the destruction of the Buddha statues in Bamiyan by the Afghan Taliban fighters in the same year.