Joan Halifax
| Joan Halifax | |
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Halifax with Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, in February 2008
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| Religion | Zen Buddhism |
| Lineage |
Zen Peacemaker Order White Plum Asanga |
| Education |
Harriet Sophie Newcomb College University of Miami School of Medicine Union Graduate School |
| Personal | |
| Nationality | American |
| Born |
July 30, 1942 Hanover, New Hampshire, U.S. |
| Senior posting | |
| Based in | Upaya Zen Center |
| Predecessor |
Bernard Glassman Thich Nhat Hanh |
| Religious career | |
| Teacher | Seung Sahn |
Joan Jiko Halifax (born July 30, 1942) is an American Zen Buddhist teacher, anthropologist, ecologist, civil rights activist, hospice caregiver, and the author of several books on Buddhism and spirituality. She currently serves as abbot and guiding teacher of Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a Zen Peacemaker community which she founded in 1990. Halifax-roshi has received Dharma transmission from both Bernard Glassman and Thich Nhat Hanh, and previously studied under the Korean master Seung Sahn. In the 1970s she collaborated on LSD research projects with her ex-husband Stanislav Grof, in addition to other collaborative efforts with Joseph Campbell and Alan Lomax. She is founder of the Ojai Foundation in California, which she led from 1979 to 1989. As a socially engaged Buddhist, Halifax has done extensive work with the dying through her Project on Being with Dying (which she founded). She is on the board of directors of the Mind and Life Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated in exploring the relationship of science and Buddhism.
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