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Message: <blockquote data-quote="badcJamiga" data-source="post: 10703449" data-attributes="member: 322236">Is jackie chan a buddhist? <img src="http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/5312/jackiechan240.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Born: <a href="http://www.nndb.com/lists/615/000106297/" target="_blank">7-Apr</a>-<a href="http://www.nndb.com/lists/953/000105638/" target="_blank">1954</a> Birthplace: <a href="http://www.nndb.com/geo/896/000069689/" target="_blank">Hong Kong</a> Gender: Male Religion: <a href="http://www.nndb.com/lists/869/000071656/" target="_blank">Buddhist</a> Race or Ethnicity: Asian Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Actor Nationality: China Executive summary: Martial arts star, does his own stunts Jackie  Chan is a martial arts film star, often billed as an action star who  always does his own stunts. In the past, Chan performed most of the  non-routine stunts in his films, and he still plans, tests,  choreographs, and performs the elaborate, jaw-dropping "wow" fights and  jumps that make his films visually spectacular. But Chan is in his 50s  now and one cannot expect him to continue climbing clock towers,  kickfighting atop speeding trains, or shimmying up light poles: in his  recent films, he relies more on his comic acting abilities, stunt men,  and cinematic special effects.   Chan's parents were staff workers at the French embassy in Hong Kong;  his father was a cook, his mother a maid. He was mostly raised at a  boarding school, where academics and performing were both stressed,  along with rigorous physical training. With young Chan's athletic and  dramatic skills, he was a minor child actor in Hong Kong movies in the  1960s, and he worked as a stuntman and extra on <a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/526/000031433/" target="_blank">Bruce Lee</a>'s 1973 kung fu classic Enter the Dragon.  Throughout the 70s, Chan worked as an actor and stuntman on innumerable  Hong Kong films. He had been in at least 50 films before his  star-making role in 1978's Drunken Master, with comedy that comes through even in subtitles, and fight scenes that are astonishing.   With Drunken Master, Chan found the movie persona that worked  perfectly for him. His characters are usually slackers or wisecrackers,  maybe not too bright, but willing to work hard. Chan has said his  characters are generally -- and intentionally -- the opposite of Lee's  stalwart, morally upright, unbeatable heroes. Chan wants viewers to feel  that his character does not want to fight, not because he is  philosophically opposed to violence but because he is afraid he will get  pummeled.   In the 1980s Chan attempted to export his stardom to America, but his American films (The Big Brawl and The Protector) were duds. Back in Hong Kong, Chan continued making eye-candy: any of his Police Story films are better than <a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/685/000022619/" target="_blank">Arnold Schwarzenegger</a>'s best, and the motorcycle-train-helicopter chase sequence at the end of Police Story III: Supercop is amazing to watch -- and even more amazing when one recalls that Chan and co-star Michelle Khan did their own stunts. Armour of God: Operation Condor puts an Asian spin on Indiana Jones, and Twin DragonsProject A II, Thunderbolt, Fearless Hyena, and Snake & Crane Arts of Shaolin. is perhaps his funniest film. Other essentials include Father: Charles Chan (restaurant cook, b. 1915, d. 2008) Mother: Lee-Lee Chan (domestic worker, d. 2002) Wife: Feng-Jiao Lin (actress, b. 30-Jun-1953, m. 1983, one son) Son: Jason Chan (b. 3-Dec-1982) Mistress: Elaine Ng (actress and former Miss Asia, one daughter) Daughter: Etta Ng Chok Lam (b. 19-Nov-1999)     High School: Chinese Opera Research Institute (1971)     <a href="http://www.nndb.com/org/362/000051209/" target="_blank">UNICEF</a> Goodwill Ambassador     Endorsement of <a href="http://www.nndb.com/company/247/000128860/" target="_blank">Hanesbrands</a> Hanes underwear     Endorsement of <a href="http://www.nndb.com/company/816/000049669/" target="_blank">Pepsi</a> 2006     Endorsement of Kaspersky Lab anti-virus software (2009-)     <a href="http://www.nndb.com/lists/599/000044467/" target="_blank">Chinese Ancestry</a> * * * * * * * * * * * Steve Jobs - a successful Buddhist Businessman   <img src="http://www.japanese-buddhism.com/image-files/steve-jobs-buddhist-celebrities.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Read  on a website:"  How can you say that you are Buddhist when you are so  good at spawning desire and attachment in this world?  " Steve Jobs' Apple company could be said to have a very Zen-like  attitude toward design with it's pure lines and minimalist approach to  user-experience. This might not be by accident. Jobs is in fact a  follower of the Buddha.    It all began, as far as we know, in 1974 when Jobs, then 21, asked  for a sabbatical from his employer, Atari, in order to go to India. After a month visiting gurus, looking for answers, he came back, not  really satisfied with what he had found. For some reasons, he decided  that Thomas Edison had done more for mankind than a lot of Gurus and  other philosophers. Read more: <a href="http://www.japanese-buddhism.com/steve-jobs-buddhist-celebrities.html#ixzz1Supb1ax6" target="_blank">http://www.japanese-buddhism.com/steve-jobs-buddhist-celebrities.html#ixzz1Supb1ax6</a> </blockquote>

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