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Steven F. Seagal (pronounced /sɨˈgɑːl/; born April 10, 1951) is a BuddhistAmerican action movie actor, producer, writer, director, martial artist, philanthropist, guitarist and singer-songwriter of Irish and Jewish descent. He belongs to a generation of movie action hero actors (including Chuck Norris, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Bruce Willis, Dolph Lundgren and Sylvester Stallone) who were featured in many blockbuster action films of the late 1980s and 1990s. A 6' 4" (193 cm) 7th-dan black belt in aikido, Seagal began his adult life as an aikido instructor in Japan. He became the first foreigner to operate an aikido dojo in Osaka, Japan. He later moved to the Los Angeles, California area where he made his film debut in 1988 in Above the Law. Since then, Seagal has become a major action star, mainly due to his films of the 1990s such as Under Siege (1992) and Under Siege 2 (1995) where he played Navy SEALs counter-terrorist expert Casey Ryback. In total his movies have earned in excess of $850 million worldwide.

Seagal is also a recording artist and gui

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The Gospel According to Steven Seagal: Buddhism

Buddhism is not hugely prominent in the US. That being said, there are influences from Buddhism which are very strongly reflected in various sectors of American society. Additionally, it is quite widespread in certain parts of the world.

While there are, relatively speaking, not a huge number of Buddhist believers in America, there are some who are quite high profile. These high profile individuals provide a certain legitimacy to the belief system in the eyes of many Americans and furnishes a platform for its propagation which goes far beyond what might ordinarily exist based on the number of believers. And, indeed, there are more and more people in our country who are adopting Buddhism as their faith of choice.

Some of the very high profile people who have gone this route are well known actors and actresses such as Steven Seagal, Kenau Reeves, Richard Gere, Goldie Hawn, and Orlando Bloom. The list of adherents also includes future hall of fame pro basketball coach Phil Jackson and the famous entrepreneur (founder of Apple Compute

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Steven Frederic Seagal was born in Lansing, Michigan, to Patricia Anne (Fisher), a medical technician, and Samuel Seagal, a high school math teacher. His paternal grandparents were Russian Jewish immigrants, and his mother had English, German, and distant Irish and Dutch, ancestry. The enigmatic Seagal commenced his martial arts training at the age of seven under the tutelage of well-known karate instructor and author Fumio Demura, and in the 1960s commenced his aikido training in Orange County, CA, under the instruction of Harry Ishisaka. Seagal received his first dan accreditation in 1974, after he had moved to Japan to further his martial arts training. After spending many years there honing his skills, he achieved the ranking of a 7th dan in the Japanese martial art "aikido" and was instructing wealthy clients in Los Angeles when he came to the attention of Hollywood power broker Michael Ovitz.

Ovitz saw star value in the imposing-looking Seagal. The high-octane action movie genre was in full swing in the late 1980s, and Seagal's debut movie, "Above the L