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Dennis Hirota is a professor in the Department of Shin Buddhism at Ryukoku University in Kyoto, Japan. He was born in Berkeley, California in 1946 and received his B.A. from University of California, Berkeley. In 2008, he was a visiting professor of Buddhism [1] at Harvard Divinity School where his studies focused on the Buddhist monk Shinran. [2]
This is a list of notable Buddhists, encompassing all the major branches of the religion (i.e. in Buddhism), and including interdenominational and eclectic Buddhist practitioners. This list includes both formal teachers of Buddhism , and people notable in other areas who are publicly Buddhist or who have espoused Buddhism.
Princess Mother Sri Sulalai (1770–1837), the consort of Phra Phutthaloetla Naphalai, Rama II of Siam and was the mother of Nangklao, Rama III.; The Bunnag family, powerful noble family of Mon-Persian descent of the early Rattanakosin Kingdom of Siam, the descendants of Sheikh Ahmad who converted to Buddhism.
"Great Big Story" This Buddhist Monk Doubles as a Celebrity Makeup Artist (2020) U.S. "Time Out Tokyo" Kodo Nishimura: Buddhist monk, Makeup artist, LGBTQ + advocate (2020) "UNILAD" This Buddhist Monk Is A Make Up Artist To The Stars (2020) U.K. "El nuevo dia"Kodo Nishimura: el monje budista que se expresa a través del maquillaje（2020 ...
one of the earliest western Buddhist monks and founder of Island Hermitage [1] Anthony Lee: Baptist: American actor and activist [2] Ananda Metteya (Charles Henry Allan Bennett) Catholic Church: British one of the earliest western Buddhist monk and established the first Buddhist Mission in the United Kingdom [3] Chris Evans: Catholic Church ...
Pema Chödrön (པདྨ་ཆོས་སྒྲོན། padma chos sgron “lotus dharma lamp”; born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown, July 14, 1936) is an American-born Tibetan Buddhist. She is an ordained nun, former acharya of Shambhala Buddhism [ 1 ] and disciple of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.
Claimed to be the living incarnation of Maitreya and ordered his subjects to worship him. His claim was rejected by most Buddhist monks and later he was dethroned and killed by his own servants. [citation needed] Nurhaci (Emperor Taizu of Qing) - founder of the Later Jin dynasty of China. Believed he was a manifestation of Manjushri Bodhisattva.
Surya Das (born Jeffrey Miller in 1950) is an American lama in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. [1] He is a poet, chantmaster, spiritual activist, author of many popular works on Buddhism, meditation teacher and spokesperson for Buddhism in the West. [1]