List of converts to Buddhism
The following people are all converts to Buddhism, sorted alphabetically by family name.
From Abrahamic religions
From Christianity
From Islam
- Wong Ah Kiu (1918–2006), Malaysian woman born to a Muslim family but raised as Buddhist; her conversion from Islam became a legal issue in Malaysia on her death[1]
- Tillakaratne Dilshan, Sri Lankan cricket player who converted from Islam to Buddhism at the age of 16, previously known as Tuwan Muhammad Dilshan[2]
- Kenneth Pai, Chinese American writer of Hui descent[3]
- Suraj Randiv, Sri Lankan cricket player, previously known as Mohamed Marshuk Mohamed Suraj
- Mehmet Scholl (1970–), German footballer
- Princess Sri Sulalai (1770–1837), royal concubine of King Buddha Loetla Nabhalai, the King of Siam (Thailand)
From Judaism
- Peter Coyote (born 1941), American actor and author[4]
- Surya Das (born 1950), lama who founded Dzogchen Foundation and Centers[5][6]
- Tetsugen Bernard Glassman (born January 18, 1939), American Zen Buddhist roshi and co-founder of the Zen Peacemakers[7]
- Jack Kornfield (born 1945), teacher in the vipassana movement of American Theravada Buddhism[7]
- Sharon Salzberg (born 1952), meditation teacher and co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society[7]
From Indian religions
From Hinduism
- B. R. Ambedkar (1891–1956), converted from Hinduism[8]
- Ashoka the Great (277–232 BCE), converted from Hinduism, Indian emperor and early convert to Buddhism[9][10]
- Aśvaghoṣa (80?–150 CE?), Indian Buddhist figure, philosopher- poet[11]
- Balachandran Chullikkadu (born 1957), Malayalam language poet from Kerala[12]
- Jagdish Kashyap (1908–1976), Buddhist monk[13]
- Laxman Mane (born 1949), Dalit author and social worker[14]
- Udit Raj (born 1958), prominent Indian social activist and Buddhist polemicist[15]
- Rahul Sankrityayan (1893–1963), Hindi author and translator[13]
- Iyothee Thass (1845–1914), Siddha practitioner and leader of the Dravidian movement[16]
From other or undetermined
- Robert Baker Aitken (1917–2010), co-founded the Honolulu Diamond Sangha[17][18]
- Reb Anderson (born 1943), Zen teacher [19]
- Alistair Appleton (born 1970), British television presenter[20][21][22]
- Stephen Batchelor (born 1953), writer[23]
- Orlando Bloom (born January 13, 1977), actor who played Legolas in Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit[24][25]
- Kate Bosworth (born 1983), American actress[26]
- John Cage (1912–1992), American composer[27]
- Arabella Churchill (1949–2007), English charity founder, festival co-founder, and fundraiser[28]
- Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer/songwriter/poet[29]
- John Crook (1930–2011), British ethologist[30]
- Ernest Fenollosa (1853–1908), American professor of philosophy and political economy at Tokyo Imperial University[31]
- Richard Gere (born 1949), actor and activist for Tibetan causes[26]
- Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997), poet[32]
- Natalie Goldberg (born 1948), writer [33]
- Herbie Hancock (born 1940), jazz pianist who has also released funk and disco albums[26]
- Joseph Jarman (born 1937), jazz musician and Jodo Shinshu priest[34][35]
- Miranda Kerr (born 1983), model[36]
- k.d. lang, Canadian singer[37]
- Jet Li (born 1963), actor[38]
- Courtney Love, American singer-songwriter[39]
- Menander I (died c. 130 BCE), Greco-Buddhist king (from pre-Christian Hellenistic religion)[40]
- Dennis Genpo Merzel (born 1944), abbot of Kanzeon Zen Center[41][42]
- Ole Nydahl (born 1941), lama teacher [43]
- Tenzin Palmo (born 1943), nun of Drukpa Kagyu lineage[44]
- Steven Seagal (born 1951), action-film actor who was proclaimed a tulku[26]
- Oliver Stone, American film director[45]
- Sharon Stone, American actress, producer, and former fashion model[46]
- Ajahn Sumedho (born 1934), most senior representative of the Thai Forest Tradition in the Western hemisphere; abbot of the Amaravati Buddhist Monastery in the UK
- Tan-luan (6th to 7th century), Chinese Buddhist monk important to Pure Land Buddhism (from Taoism)[47]
- Robert Thurman (born 1941), Buddhist priest and writer who has been called "the Billy Graham of Buddhism"[48]
- Tina Turner (born 1939), American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress who has won eight Grammy Awards[29]
- Philip Whalen (1923–2002), Beat generation poet and Zen monk[49]
- Adam Yauch (1964–2012), aka MCA, American rapper (member of Beastie Boys), songwriter, film director, and human rights activist[50]
See also
- List of Buddhists
- List of converts to Christianity
- List of converts to Islam
- List of converts to Hinduism
- List of converts to Judaism
- List of converts to Sikhism
- List of people by belief
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