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

Christianity

Hinduism

* Mihirakula – Huna ruler * Rajasinghe I – Sri Lankan king who conquered Kandy * Rishabhadatta –

Satrap A satrap () was a governor of the provinces of the ancient Median and Achaemenid Empires and in several of their successors, such as in the Sasanian Empire and the Hellenistic empires. The satrap served as viceroy to the king, though with consid ...

viceroy * Rudradaman I –

ruler and conqueror of the Satavahanas

Islam

* The Barmakid family – originally the guardians of the great Buddhist shrine near

Balkh ), named for its green-tiled ''Gonbad'' ( prs, گُنبَد, dome), in July 2001 , pushpin_map=Afghanistan#Bactria#West Asia , pushpin_relief=yes , pushpin_label_position=bottom , pushpin_mapsize=300 , pushpin_map_caption=Location in Afghanistan ...

, upon conversion they became "the greatest family" in the early Abbasid caliphate *

Muhammad ibn Suri Muhammad ibn Suri (Persian: محمد بن سوری, died 1011) was the king of the Ghurid dynasty from the 10th-century to 1011. During his reign, he was defeated by the Ghaznavid emperor Mahmud of Ghazni and his domains were conquered. According ...

– king of the Ghurid dynasty from the 10th-century to 1011 * Mahmud Ghazan – seventh ruler of the Ilkhanate *

Korguz Korguz (died 1242) was a Uyghur governor of Khurasan during the reign of the Mongol ruler Ögedei Khan. He began his career teaching Mongol children and thereafter assumed governorship of Khorasan. Originally a Buddhist, he converted to Islam la ...

– was a Uyghur governor of

Khorasan Khorasan may refer to: * Greater Khorasan, a historical region which lies mostly in modern-day northern/northwestern Afghanistan, northeastern Iran, southern Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan * Khorasan Province, a pre-2004 province of Ira ...

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 Islam (; ar, ۘالِإسلَام, , ) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centred primarily around the Quran, a religious text considered by Muslims to be the direct word of God (or '' Allah'') as it was revealed to Muhammad, the mai ...

scholar of Chinese Malaysian descent whose lectures are frequently aired on Peace TV

References

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