Converts to Buddhism from Protestantism

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

American actor (born 1949)

American singer

Donovan Phillips Leitch (born 10 May 1946) is a Scottish musician, songwriter and record producer. He emerged from the British folk scene in early 1965 and subsequently scored numerous international hit singles and albums during the late 1960s. His work became emblematic of the flower power era with its blend of folk, pop, psychedelia and jazz stylings.

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

English convicted child sex offender and former glam rock singer-songwriter and musician

British scholar of the Pāli language (1843–1922)

Seungsahn Haengwon (, August 1, 1927November 30, 2004), born Duk-In Lee, was a Korean Seon master of the Jogye Order and founder of the international Kwan Um School of Zen. He was the seventy-eighth Patriarch in his lineage. As one of the early Korean Zen masters to settle in the United States, he opened many temples and practice groups across the globe. He was known for his charismatic style and direct presentation of Zen, which was well tailored for the Western audience.

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

Northern Irish musician (1935–2002)

award-winning Cuban-American poet and writer

American Buddhist writer

Brazilian actress (1929-2015)

German politician

Brazilian writer