20th-century American Buddhists

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Chinese-Singaporean martial artist and actor

American-born Swiss singer and songwriter (1939–2023)

German-American writer (1920–1994)

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American writer (1922–1969)

American poet and writer (1926–1997)

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American avant-garde composer (1912-1992)

American jazz pianist and composer (born 1940)

British American author and lecturer (1915–1973)

African-American actress (born 1963)

American artist and musician (born 1947)

American actress and model

American singer

American jazz saxophonist and composer (1933–2023)

Cambodian-American physician and actor (1940–1996)

American actress and comedian (1942-2013)

Hong Kong singer (1975–2023)

American actor, voice artist, director, activist and narrator

American lawyer and politician (born 1947)

American actor

U.S. Army officer; founder of Theosophy (1832-1907)

American novelist (1927–2014)

American actor and director (born 1930)

American actor (1946–2006)

American physicist (1906-1968)

American musician (1964–2012)

actress

Japanese Buddhist missionary (1904–1971)

American writer

American jazz and blues singer (1928–2016)

American actor

American art historian and orientalist (1853-1908)

American writer (1936-2019)

American Buddhist writer and academic

American scholar of Tibetan Buddhism (born 1944)

American politician

American mathematician

American singer, dancer and actress

American activist, author, and ecologist (1929–2025)

American musician

American poet (1934–2017)

US Buddhist monk

American politician (1951-2026)

American writer (1898–1988)

American actress (1938-1996)

American Buddhist writer

US Buddhist monk

American author, translator, teacher, researcher, interpreter, and Buddhist practitioner

American fiction writer, essayist, and academic (born 1948)

British American anthropologist (1924-1994)

American Zen Buddhist roshi, anthropologist, ecologist, and civil rights activist

American poet

Swedish-German fashion model

Japanese Buddhist monk (1885–1973)

American musician

Indian meditation teacher (1911–1989)

Japanese Zen Buddhist monk (1860–1919)