Jewish Buddhist

A Jubu (also Jewish Buddhist, Jewbu, Jew-Bu, Jewboo, Buju, etc.) is a person, very often American, with a Jewish background, who practices forms of Buddhist-linked meditation and spirituality. Their interest may be in meditation rather than Buddhism or religion. (In those cases where the individual practices a religion, this may be both Judaism and Buddhism, but often Jewish is an ethnic designation and the person's main religious practice is Buddhism.)

The term Jubu was first brought into wide circulation with the publication of The Jew in the Lotus (1994) by Rodger Kamenetz.

Notable people

 * Bhikkhu Bodhi
 * Ayya Khema
 * Thubten Chodron
 * Leonard Cohen
 * Jacques Rutzky - Oberlin Buddhist Affiliate, publisher of 'Coyote Speaks'
 * Surya Das
 * Richie Davidson
 * Robert Downey Jr.
 * Mark Epstein
 * Anthony Ervin
 * Zoketsu Norman Fischer
 * Allen Ginsberg
 * Tetsugen Bernard Glassman
 * Philip Glass
 * Craig Taro Gold
 * Natalie Goldberg
 * Daniel Goleman
 * Joseph Goldstein
 * Dan Harris
 * Sam Harris
 * Goldie Hawn
 * Jon Kabat-Zinn
 * Jack Kornfield
 * Rabbi Alan Lew - also known as the Zen Rabbi
 * Jay Michaelson
 * David Nichtern
 * Ethan Nichtern
 * Mandy Patinkin
 * Jeremy Piven
 * Larry Rosenberg
 * Sharon Salzberg
 * Nyanaponika Thera
 * Helen Tworkov
 * Adam Yauch
 * Shinzen Young