Famous Buddha
Posted in Antiques on 04/21/2009 07:31 pm by admin
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Famous people who are Buddha's?
I am trying to find the name of famous people who follow Buddism
Well probably the most famous, or one of them, would be the 60s pop singer, Cat Stevens who in the height of his career stopped singing and became Yusuf Islam.
In December 1977, at a London mosque, Stevens officially converted to Islam and took a name more suited to his new religious life: Yusuf Islam. Soon after the 1978 release of his last album as Cat Stevens, "Back To Earth (Album)," Islam retired from the pop world, got married and absorbed himself in the study and practice of his new religion.
Islam's decision to leave the music world was, he now stresses, his own:
And here's a list of 'famous' Buddhists - or some of them ...
Ernestine Anderson - jazz singer
Laurie Anderson - performance artist
Kate Bosworth - actress
Orlando Bloom - actor
Susan Blackmore - parapsychologist, Zen Buddhist, ghost buster, professional skeptic
Cora L. E. Christian - Black female doctor who was an independent candidate for Governor of U.S. Virgin Islands, 2002.
Leonard Cohen - Canadian poet, novelist
Rob Cohen - film director
Dadon Dawadolma - singer, actress
Diane di Prima - Feminist poet
Nathaniel Dorsky - filmmaker
Richard Gere - actor, movie star
Goldie Hawn - Oscar-winning actress
Frank Herbert - science fiction writer famous for Dune series
Becky Johnston - author, screenwriter
Phil Jackson - basketball coach
Jack Kerouac - poet, writer
George Lucas - film producer, director ("Star Wars")
Jennifer Lopez - singer, actress
Joanna Lumley - actress
Melissa Mathison - screenwriter
Tano Maeda - filmmaker
Me'shell Ndegeocello - musician, songwriter
Bruce Joel Rubin - screenwriter
Keanu Reeves - actor
Michael Stipe - musician
Oliver Stone - film director
Patti Smith - rock star
Steven Seagal - actor
Renee Tajima-Pena - filmmaker
Tina Turner - singer
Uma Thurman - actress
Babeth VanLoo - filmmaker
Gene Vincent - rockabilly musician
Mark Wahlberg - rap singer, actor
Alice Walker - author, The Color Purple
Ruby Wax - actress, comedienne
Adam Yauch (MCA of the Beasties) - rap singer
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