Editing Tina Turner (section)

===Religious beliefs===
Turner sometimes referred to herself as a "[[Buddhist]]–Baptist", alluding to her upbringing in the [[Baptist church]] where her father was a [[deacon]] and her later conversion to Buddhism as an adult.{{sfn|Orth|2004|p=42}} In a 2016 interview with ''[[Lion's Roar (magazine)|Lion's Roar]]'' magazine, she declared, "I consider myself a Buddhist."<ref name="Andrea Miller">{{cite news |first=Andrea |last=Miller |date=March 7, 2016 |title=What's Love Got to Do With It? |work=[[Lion's Roar (magazine)|Lion's Roar magazine]] |url= http://www.lionsroar.com/tina-turner-whats-love-got-to-do-with-it/ |url-status=live |access-date=March 8, 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160306164116/http://www.lionsroar.com/tina-turner-whats-love-got-to-do-with-it/ |archive-date=March 6, 2016}}</ref> The February 15, 1979, issue of ''Jet'' magazine featured Turner with her Buddhist altar on the cover.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=February 15, 1979 |title=Sex and Religion Keep Tina Turner Famous and Humble |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=h0IDAAAAMBAJ |journal=Jet}}</ref> Turner credited the ''Liturgy of Nichiren Daishonin'' and [[Soka Gakkai International]] for her introduction to spiritual knowledge.<ref>{{harvnb|Turner|Loder|1986|loc=Acknowledgements}}: "I would like to acknowledge: The Liturgy of Nichiren Daishonin for an introduction to spiritual knowledge."</ref><ref name="ShSun-WLGTDWI-201109">{{cite web |last=Miller |first=Andrea |date=September 2011 |title=What's Love Got to Do With It? An interview with Tina Turner |url= http://www.shambhalasun.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3763&Itemid=0 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140704180020/http://www.shambhalasun.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3763&Itemid=0 |archive-date=July 4, 2014 |access-date=January 11, 2019 |page=65 |newspaper=[[Shambhala Sun]]}}</ref>

Turner stated in her 1986 autobiography ''I, Tina'' that she was introduced to [[Nichiren Buddhism]] by one of Ike Turner's mistresses named Valerie Bishop, who taught her the chant ''[[Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō|nam-myōhō-renge-kyō]]'' in 1973.{{Sfn|Turner|Loder|p=139|1986}}<ref name="worldtribune-turner">{{cite news |date=August 1, 2018 |title=The Queen of Hope |work=Living Buddhism / World Tribune |publisher=[[Soka Gakkai International-USA]] |url= https://www.worldtribune.org/2018/07/queen-hope-tina-turner/ |url-status=live |access-date=January 11, 2019 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180810235425/https://www.worldtribune.org/2018/07/queen-hope-tina-turner/ |archive-date=August 10, 2018}}</ref> Turner later stated in her 2020 spiritual memoir ''[[Happiness Becomes You (book)|Happiness Becomes You]]'' that her son, Ronnie Turner, first suggested she might benefit from chanting.<ref>{{cite book |last=Turner |first=Tina |author-link=Tina Turner |date=2020 |title=Happiness Becomes You |url= |location= |publisher=Atria Books |page=19 |isbn=978-1-9821-5215-4}}</ref> Turner practiced Buddhism with her neighborhood Soka Gakkai International chanting group.<ref name="World Tribune-2020">{{Cite web |date=November 2, 2020 |title=Tina Turner on 'Happiness Becomes You' |url= https://www.worldtribune.org/2020/11/tina-turner-on-happiness-becomes-you/ |access-date=July 17, 2021 |website=World Tribune |language=en-US |archive-date=July 16, 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210716205459/https://www.worldtribune.org/2020/11/tina-turner-on-happiness-becomes-you/ |url-status=live}}</ref> After chanting, Turner noticed positive changes in her life, which she attributed to her newfound spiritual practice. She said: "I realized that I had within me everyone I needed to change my life for the better."{{sfn|Turner|Loder|p=139|1986}}<ref name="World Tribune-2020"/> During the hardest times of her life, Turner chanted four hours per day, and although in later life she no longer chanted as much, she still maintained a daily practice.<ref name="worldtribune-turner"/> Turner likened Buddhist chanting to singing. She told ''Lion's Roar'': "''Nam-myoho-renge-kyo'' is a song. In the [[Soka Gakkai]] tradition we are taught how to sing it. It is a sound and a rhythm and it touches a place inside you. That place we try to reach is the subconscious mind. I believe that it is the highest place and, if you communicate with it, that is when you receive information on what to do."<ref name="Andrea Miller"/> Dramatizations of Turner chanting were included both in the 1993 film ''What's Love Got to Do with It'' and in the 2021 documentary film ''[[Tina (2021 film)|Tina]]''.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Snapes |first=Laura |date=May 24, 2023 |title=Tina Turner: legendary rock'n'roll singer dies aged 83 |work=The Guardian |url= https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/may/24/tina-turner-legendary-rocknroll-singer-dies-aged-83 |access-date=May 25, 2023 |issn=0261-3077 |archive-date=May 25, 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230525023115/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/may/24/tina-turner-legendary-rocknroll-singer-dies-aged-83 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Valdez |first=Jonah |date=May 25, 2023 |title=How Tina Turner's Buddhist faith gave her the strength to leave Ike Turner |url= https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2023-05-24/tina-turner-buddhism-ike-turner-nichiren |access-date=May 25, 2023 |website=Los Angeles Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Bushby |first=Helen |date=May 25, 2023 |title=How Tina Turner 'broke the silence' on domestic abuse |work=BBC News |url= https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-65673196 |access-date=May 25, 2023 |archive-date=May 25, 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230525055615/https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-65673196 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Turner met with the [[14th Dalai Lama]], in [[Einsiedeln, Switzerland]], on August 2, 2005. She also met with Swiss-Tibetan Buddhist singer [[Dechen Shak-Dagsay]] and in 2009 co-created a spiritual music project with Shak-Dagsay and Swiss singer Regula Curti called [[Beyond (Swiss band)|Beyond]].<ref name="SWI-20090710">{{cite web |title=Tina Turner records album with Swiss friends – SWI swissinfo.ch |url= http://www.swissinfo.ch/directdemocracy/tina-turner-records-album-with-swiss-friends/963856 |website=swissinfo.ch |access-date=January 11, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160817123609/http://www.swissinfo.ch/directdemocracy/tina-turner-records-album-with-swiss-friends/963856 |archive-date=August 17, 2016 |date=July 10, 2009}}</ref><ref>''[[Migros Magazine]]'', issue No. 38–19, September 2011.</ref>