List of Buddhists Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

A number of noted individuals have been Buddhists.

Table of contents

1 Historical Buddhist thinkers and founders of schools 2 Historical rulers and political figures 3 Modern teachers 3.1 Theravada / Vipassana teachers 3.2 Tibetan Buddhist teachers 3.3 Zen teachers 3.4 Miscellaneous 3.5 Teachers of controversial Buddhist or Buddhist-influenced groups 4 Modern scholars and authors 5 Modern rulers and political figures 6 Celebrity Buddhists 7 See also

Historical Buddhist thinkers and founders of schools

• the Buddha
• Ananda, Siddhartha's cousin and one of his chief disciples
• An Shih Kao, a Parthian monk and the first known Buddhist missionary to China, in 148 CE.
• Asanga
• Atisha (indirect founder of the Geluk school of Tibetan Buddhism)
• Bodhidharma (legendary first patriarch of Zen in China)
• Buddhaghosa (Theravadin commentator)
• Chandrakirti
• Dharmakirti
• Dharmaraksa, a Yueh-Chih Buddhist monk, the first known translator of the Lotus Sutra into Chinese.
• Dharmaraksita, a Greek Buddhist missionary of Emperor Ashoka, and a teacher of Nagasena.
• Dogen Zenji (founder of Soto Zen, based upon the Chinese Caodong tradition)
• Eisai (12th century Japanese monk, travelled to China and returned to found the Japanese Rinzai sect of Zen)
• Fazang
• Fa Xian (translator and pilgrim)
• Gampopa Dagpo Lharje, a student of Jetsun Milarepa and founder of the Karma Kagyü lineage of Tibetan Buddhism
• Gihwa (1376-1433) Korean Seon monk; wrote commentaries on the Diamond Sutra and Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment
• Hakuin (Rinzai Zen)
• Huineng (6th Patriarch of Zen in China)
• Ingen (17th century Chinese Zen monk, founder of the Ōbaku; sect of Zen)
• Jinul Korean Seon monk (1158-1210); founder of modern Korean gong'an meditation system
• Jnanagupta (translator)
• Jnanayasas (translator)
• Joshu (9th century Chinese Zen monk)
• Khandro Kalpa Zangmo
• Khungpo Nyaljor, founder of the Shangpa Kagyü lineage
• Kukai (9th century Japanese monk, founder of Shingon)
• Linji (9th century Japanese monk, founder of the Linji sect of Zen)
• Lokaksema, a Kushan monk, the first translator of Mahayana scriptures into Chinese, around 180 CE.
• Longchenpa
• Luipa
• Mahakashyapa, a disciple of the Buddha
• Mahadharmaraksita (A Greek Buddhist master during the time of Menander)
• Marpa Lotsawa (Marpa the Translator, Marpa of Lhobrag), a student of Naropa and first Tibetan founder in the Kagyü lineage of Tibetan Buddhism
• Menander (Pali: Milinda, 2nd century BCE, an Indo-Greek king of northwestern India, who questioned Nāgasena; about Buddhism in the Milinda Pañha)
• Jetsun Milarepa, a student of Marpa Lotsawa and one of Tibet's most famous yogis
• Nagarjuna (influential Buddhist philosopher)
• Nāgasena; (2nd century BCE Buddhist sage questioned about Buddhism by Milinda, the Greek king of Bactria in the Milinda Pañha)
• Nagpopa
• Naropa, Tilopa's primary disciple, teacher of Marpa the Translator and Khungpo Nyaljor
• Nichiren (founder of Nichiren Buddhism)
• Nikko (founder of Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism)
• Padmasambhava (semi-legendary founder of Nyingma school of Tibetan_Buddhism)
• Rōben; (8th century Japanese monk, invited Simsang to Japan and founded the Kegon tradition, based upon the Korean Hwaeom school)
• Ryokan (18th century Japanese Zen monk and poet)
• Saicho (9th century Japanese monk, founder of Tendai tradition, based upon the Chinese Tiantai school)
• Sariputta (Pali. Shariputra Sanskrit. One of two chief disciples of the Buddha.)
• Shantideva (8th century Indian)
• Shinran
• Simsang (8th century Korean monk, who at the request of Rōben; helped transmit Hwaeom to Japan, thereby founding the Japanese Kegon tradition)
• Takuan Soho (Zen teacher, and, according to legend, mentor of the swordsman Miyamoto Musashi)
• Tilopa, recipient of four separate transmissions from Nagarjuna, Nagpopa, Luipa, and Khandro Kalpa Zangmo; Naropa's teacher
• Tsongkhapa (14th century Tibetan monk, founder of the Geluk school of Tibetan Buddhism, based upon the Kadam tradition)
• Uisang (7th century Korean monk, founder of Hwaeom tradition, based upon the Chinese Huayan school)
• Vasubandhu
• Weonhyo (617-668) Korean monk; prolific commentator on Mahayana sutras
• Wonchuk
• Xuanzang (brought Yogacara to China to found Faxiang school, significant pilgrim, translator)
• Yi Jing (pilgrim and translator)
• Zhiyi (founder of Tiantai school)
• Zongmi (WG: Tsung-mi; fifth patriarch of Chinese Huayan school)

Historical rulers and political figures

• Ashoka the Great, Mauryan Emperor of Ancient India
• Brhadrata, the last ruler of the Mauryan dynasty
• Wu Zetian

Modern teachers

Theravada / Vipassana teachers

• Ajahn Brahm (1951- )
• Ajahn Chah (1918-1992)
• Ajahn Mun
• Ven. Ananda Maitreya (1896-1998)
• Ayya Khema (1923-1997)
• Bhante Henepola Gunaratana (1927- )
• Buddhadasa Bhikkhu (1906-1993)
• S. N. Goenka (1924- )
• Joseph Goldstein
• Mahasi Sayadaw (1904-1982)
• Sharon Salzberg
• Sayadaw U Pandita (1921- )

Tibetan Buddhist teachers

• Kalu Rinpoche (1905-1989)
• Chögyam Trungpa (1940-1987)
• Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
• Dhardo Rimpoche (1917-1990)
• Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche (1938- )
• Ole Nydahl (1942- )
• Pema Chodron (1936- )
• Reginald Ray
• Tarthang Tulku

Zen teachers

• Robert Aitken, Roshi (1917- )
• Tenshin Reb Anderson
• Zentatsu Richard Baker, Roshi
• Jan Chozen Bays
• Charlotte Joko Beck
• John Crook (1930- )
• Zoketsu Norman Fischer
• Tetsugen Bernard Glassman, Roshi
• Joan Halifax
• Daiun Harada, Roshi (1871-1961)
• Sandra Jishu Holmes
• the Ven. Hsu Yun (1840-1959)
• Philip Kapleau, Roshi (1912-2004)
• Dainin Katagiri
• Jiyu Kennett, Roshi (1924-1996)
• Geri Larkin
• John Daido Loori, Roshi
• Taizan Maezumi, Roshi
• Kyozan Joshu Sasaki, Roshi (1907- )
• Seung Sahn, Soen Sa (1927- )
• the Ven. Sheng-yen (1931- )
• Soyen Shaku, Roshi (1859-1919)
• Eido Shimano, Roshi
• Shunryu Suzuki, Roshi (1904-1971)
• Haku'un Yasutani, Roshi (1885-1973)

Miscellaneous

• Anagarika Dharmapala (1864-1933)
• Natalie Goldberg
• the Ven. Hsing Yun
• Thich Nhat Hanh (1926- )
• Jan Willis
• Sangharakshita (1925- )
• Henry Steel Olcott

Teachers of controversial Buddhist or Buddhist-influenced groups

• Shoko Asahara (1955- )

Modern scholars and authors

• Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891-1956)
• Stephen Batchelor
• Edward Conze (1904-1979)
• C.A.F. Rhys Davids (1857-1942)
• T.W. Rhys Davids (1843-1922)
• Gary Snyder
• D.T. Suzuki (1870-1966)

Modern rulers and political figures

• Aung San Suu Kyi
• Jerry Brown
• Yohei Kono
• Hideki Tojo

Celebrity Buddhists

• Roberto Baggio
• Fabien Barthez
• Jackie Chan
• Leslie Cheung
• Leonard Cohen
• Penelope Cruz
• Phoolan Devi
• Michael Everson
• Richard Gere
• Allen Ginsberg
• Philip Glass
• Ron Glass
• Herbie Hancock
• Bell hooks
• Phil Jackson (1945- )
• Lee Byung Hun
• Maxi Jazz
• Charles Johnson
• Jet Li
• John Milius
• Anita Mui
• Kathleen Dee-Anne Norris
• Lisa Raye
• Keanu Reeves
• Steven Seagal
• Oliver Stone
• Teresa Teng
• Tina Turner
• Alice Walker
• Faye Wong
• Adam Yauch (MCA)

See also

• List of people
• List of people by belief

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