List of former Buddhists

The following is a list of former Buddhists who no longer identify as such, organized by their current religious affiliation or ideology.

Atheism

Christianity

Hinduism

• Mihirakula – Huna ruler
• Rajasinghe I – Sri Lankan king who conquered Kandy
• Rishabhadatta – Satrap viceroy
• Rudradaman I – Satrap ruler and conqueror of the Satavahanas

Islam

• The Barmakid family – originally the guardians of the great Buddhist shrine near Balkh, upon conversion they became "the greatest family" in the early Abbasid caliphate
• Muhammad ibn Suri – king of the Ghurid dynasty from the 10th-century to 1011
• Mahmud Ghazan – seventh ruler of the Ilkhanate
• Korguz – was a Uyghur governor of Khorasan during the reign of the Mongol ruler Ogedei Khan
• Muhammad Khodabandeh – eighth Ilkhaid dynasty ruler in Iran from 1304 to 1316
• Mubarak Shah – head of the ulus of the Chagatai Khanate (1252–1260, March–September 1266)
• Donei Kalaminjaa – king of the Maldives
• Tarmashirin – Khan of the Chagatai Khanate following Duwa Timur
• Hussein Ye – Islamic scholar of Chinese Malaysian descent whose lectures are frequently aired on Peace TV

See also

• List of converts to Buddhism

References