There are Sanghas, monasteries, and temples cropping up all over the place. While it is truly beautiful that so many people are realizing there is more to life than meets the eye, how many people are Buddhist because they want to follow the path and end suffering or because they are looking for a new shiny label to slap on their reputation? Let’s look at some celebrities who claim they are Buddhist.
First on the list is Steven Seagal. In the movie The Glimmer Man, Seagal plays a homicide detective who wears mala beads wherever he goes. One may think “that is odd, he has mala beads”. It may be thought it was all for the movie, but doing some research you will find that Seagal is a Buddhist and went to an Asian country as a teen to learn Buddhism and martial arts. Not only is he a 7th degree black belt and Aikido master, he is a Zen teacher and healer. Shambala Sun has this interesting interview with Seagal.
Keanu Reeves is assumed to be Buddhist because of his study of Buddhism during the making of the film “Little Buddha”. He has neither publically denied or confirmed that he is in fact Buddhist.
