List of former Buddhists
The following is a list of former Buddhists who no longer identify as such, organized by their current religious affiliation or ideology.
Christianity
| Name | Nationality | Notes | Refs. | Mitsuo Fuchida | Japanese | Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service captain noted for involvement in the attack on Pearl Harbor who later became an evangelist | [1][2] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zack Lee | Indonesian | actor and boxer | [3] | ||||
| Jaruvan Maintaka | Thai | former Auditor-General of Thailand | [4] | ||||
| Chieko N. Okazaki | American | Relief Society leader | [5] | ||||
| Talduwe Somarama | Sri Lankan | former Buddhist monk and assassin | [6] | ||||
| Charlie Soong | Chinese | businessman and missionary | [7] | ||||
| Janice Vidal | Hong Konger | singer | [8][9] | ||||
| Paul Williams | English | professor in Indian religions at the University of Bristol | [10] | ||||
| Vanness Wu | Taiwan | actor and singer | [11] | ||||
| Yu Tian | Taiwan | singer-politician | [12] |
Hinduism
- Mihirakula – Huna ruler[13]
- Rajasinghe I – Sri Lankan king who conquered Kandy[14]
- Rishabhadatta – Satrap viceroy[15]
- Rudradaman I – Satrap ruler and conqueror of the Satavahanas[16]
- Vasudeva I – Kushan king and numismatist[17]
Islam
- The Barmakid family – originally the guardians of the great Buddhist shrine near Balkh, upon conversion they became "the greatest family" in the early Abbasid caliphate[18]
- Muhammad ibn Suri - king of the Ghurid dynasty from the 10th-century to 1011
- Mahmud Ghazan – seventh ruler of the Ilkhanate[19]
- Korguz – was an Uyghur governor of Khorasan[20] during the reign of the Mongol ruler Ogedei Khan[21]
- Muhammad Khodabandeh – eighth Ilkhaid dynasty ruler in Iran from 1304 to 1316[22]
- Mubarak Shah – head of the ulus of the Chagatai Khanate (1252–1260, March–September 1266)[23]
- Daniel Moore – poet[24]
- Donei Kalaminjaa – king of the Maldives[25]
- Tarmashirin – Khan of the Chagatai Khanate following Duwa Timur[26]
- Hussein Ye – Islamic scholar of Chinese descent whose lectures are frequently aired on Peace TV[27]
- Stanzin Saldon - Converted to Islam for marriage with Murtaza Agha. Made lot of headlines.[28]
References
- "Christianity Today newsletter". Christianitytoday.com. Retrieved 2 November 2012.
- From Pearl Harbor to Calvary by Mitsuo Fuchida.
- ""Kesaksian hidup Zack Lee (suami Nafa Urbach)" at". gmstrueworshippers.wordpress.com. Retrieved 30 June 2012.
- ""God's on My Side" at". Nationmultimedia.com. Archived from the original on 13 September 2012. Retrieved 2 November 2012.
- "New Relief Society General Presidency Called," Ensign, May 1990, pp. 110–11.
- "Ceylon: To Find Forgiveness – TIME". Time.com. 13 July 1962. Retrieved 2 November 2012.
- "The Chinese Revolution and Chinese Communism". Web.ku.edu. Retrieved 2 November 2012.
- Janice Vidal (2009). Twins effect inspires Janice Vidal (衛蘭) (interview footage). Hong Kong: South China Morning Post.
- Janice: Except God, I trust Leon the Most (Traditional Chinese), Oriental Daily, Retrieved on 2010-07-08
- Buddhism: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies Edited and with a new introduction by Paul Williams (London: Routledge, 2005). Eight volumes. ISBN 978-0-415-33226-2
- Tan, Theresa. "Vanness Wu: Christian First, Entertainer Second". City News. Retrieved 20 March 2009.
- （圖輯影音）余天受洗成基督徒 拋棄過去所有罪孽, Liberty Times, 2017-04-09
- Thakur, Upendra. The Hunas in India. The Chowkhamba Senskrit, Banaras, 1967.
- Dona Catherina: the last empress of Lanka Lanka Library
- Divatia 42
- Divatia, N. B. (1993). Gujarati Language and Literature. Asian Educational Services. ISBN 8120606485.
- Coins of India Calcutta : Association Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1922
- Kennedy, Hugh (2004). The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates. Longman. pp. 137, 143.
- Mahmud Ghazan Archived 3 January 2008 at the Wayback Machine. Encyclopædia Britannica. 2007. Britannica Concise Encyclopedia. 2 July 2007.
- Genghis Khan: his life and legacy By Paul Ratchnevsky, Thomas Nivison Haining, pg. 204
- The Cambridge history of Iran, Volume 5 By University of Cambridge, pg. 204
- Limbert, J. W. (2004). Shiraz in the age of Hafez: the glory of a medieval Persian city. Seattle: University of Washington Press. p.87
- A Sketch of the History of Hindustan from the First Muslim Conquest to the Fall of the Mughal Empire by H. G. Keene
- Moore, Abd al-Hayy.CHOOSING ISLAM: ONE MAN'S TALE. University of New Hampshire.
- Maldives By Stefania Lamberti, pg.15
- "The Chaghadaids and Islam: the conversion of Tarmashirin Khan (1331–34). – Journal, Magazine, Article, Periodical". Goliath.ecnext.com. 1 October 2002. Retrieved 7 April 2010.
- "Peace Tv". Peacetv.in. Retrieved 7 April 2010.
- says, Buddhist socialist (23 October 2017). "On the Run for Love: Buddhist-Muslim Marriage". www.InterfaithShaadi.org. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
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