page_title: List of converts to Buddhism from Hinduism
section_title: Persons
hierarchical_section_title: List of converts to Buddhism from Hinduism / Persons
caption_attribution_description: English: Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, chief architect of Indian constitution and founding father of the modern India.
context_page_description: This is a list of notable converts to Buddhism from Hinduism.
context_section_description: Balachandran Chullikkadu (born 1957), Malayalam language poet from Kerala
  Bhadant Anand Kausalyayan, Punjabi, initially joined Arya samaj and then became a Buddhist monk on Feb 12, 1928.
  Laxman Mane (born 1949), author and social worker.
  Swami Prasad Maurya, politician
  Udit Raj (born 1958), prominent Indian social activist and Buddhist polemicist
  Rahul Sankrityayan (1893–1963), Hindi author and translator
  Iyothee Thass (1845–1914), Siddha practitioner and leader of the Dravidian movement
  Lenin Raghuvanshi (born 1970), activist, one of the founding members of People's Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR)
  Lalai Singh Yadav (1921-1993), a social justice activist and play writer. He translated Periyar E. V. Ramasamy's The Key To Understanding True Ramayan from Tamil to Hindi as Sachi Ramayan Ki Chabi
caption: B. R. Ambedkar
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