Poonam Joshi (1980вЂ“), Indian television soap opera actress.Tisca Chopra (1973вЂ“), Indian actress, author and film producer.Pracheen Chauhan, Indian television actor.Suresh Bhat (1932вЂ“2003), Indian poet and writer.Lenin Raghuvanshi (1970вЂ“), activist, one of the founding members of People's Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR).Udit Raj (1958вЂ“), prominent Indian social activist and Buddhist polemicist.Laxman Mane (1949вЂ“), Dalit author and social worker.Iyothee Thass (1845вЂ“1914), Siddha practitioner and leader of the Dravidian movement.Rahul Sankrityayan (1893вЂ“1963), Hindi author and translator.Balachandran Chullikkadu (1957вЂ“), Malayalam language poet from Kerala.Bhadant Anand Kausalyayan, Buddhist monk, writer, and scholar.Jagdish Kashyap (1908вЂ“1976), Buddhist monk.Ambedkar (1891вЂ“1956), Chief architect of the Constitution of India Main article: List of converts to Buddhism from Hinduism (1965вЂ“), American actor and producer ДЇrom Indian religions From Hinduism Steven Seagal (1952вЂ“), American actor, producer, screenwriter, martial artist, and musician who holds American, Serbian, and Russian citizenship.Goldie Jeanne Hawn (1945вЂ“), American actress, producer, dancer, and singer.

Sharon Salzberg (1952вЂ“), meditation teacher and co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society.

Jack Kornfield (1945вЂ“), teacher in the Vipassana Movement of American Theravada Buddhism.

Hozan Alan Senauke (1947вЂ“), Soto Zen priest, folk musician and poet.

Zenkei Blanche Hartman (1926вЂ“2016), Soto Zen teacher practicing in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki.

Zoketsu Norman Fischer (1946вЂ“), American poet, writer, and Soto Zen priest and founded the Everyday Zen Foundation.

Tetsugen Bernard Glassman (1939вЂ“2018), American Zen Buddhist roshi and co-founder of the Zen Peacemakers.Surya Das (1950вЂ“), lama who founded Dzogchen Foundation and Centers.Peter Coyote (1941вЂ“), American actor and author.Larry Rosenberg (1932вЂ“), American Buddhist teacher who founded the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center.Ayya Khema (1923вЂ“1997), German Buddhist teacher and one of the organizers for the first International Conference on Buddhist Women.Bhikkhu Bodhi (1944вЂ“), American Theravada Buddhist monk and scholar, founder of the Buddhist Global Relief.Nyanaponika Mahathera (1901вЂ“1994), German-born Theravada monk, co-founder and first president of the Buddhist Publication Society.

Wong Ah Kiu (1918вЂ“2006), Malay woman born to a Muslim family but raised as Buddhist her conversion from Islam became a legal issue in Malaysia on her death.Pai Hsien-yung (1937вЂ“), son of KMT Muslim General Bai Chongxi, a Chinese American writer of Hui descent.Suraj Randiv (1985вЂ“), Sri Lankan cricket player who was previously known as Mohamed Marshuk Mohamed Suraj.Tillakaratne Sampath (1982вЂ“), Sri Lankan cricket player who was previously known as Tuwan Mohammad Nishan Sampath.Tillakaratne Dilshan (1976вЂ“), Sri Lankan cricket player who converted from Islam to Buddhism at the age of 16, previously known as Tuwan Muhammad Dilshan.Napapa Tantrakul (1986вЂ“), Thai actress who was raised as Muslim and converted to Buddhism in 2016.The Bunnag family, powerful noble family of Mon-Persian descent of the early Rattanakosin Kingdom of Siam, the descendants of Sheikh Ahmad who converted to Buddhism.Princess Mother Sri Sulalai (1770вЂ“1837), the consort of Phra Phutthaloetla Naphalai, Rama II of Siam and was the mother of Nangklao, Rama III.Main article: List of converts to Buddhism from Islam

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