American Zen Buddhist roshi, anthropologist, ecologist, and civil rights activist
Joan Halifax
Halifax in February 2008
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(1942-07-30) July 30, 1942 (age 81)
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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 has received Dharma transmission from Bernard Glassman, and previously studied with the Korean zen 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 to exploring the relationship of science and Buddhism.
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meditation by 1990. She trained as a lay Buddhist chaplain under Roshi JoanHalifax at Upaya Zen Center in 2013, and was ordained in 2018. Most impacted...
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States affiliates include the Upaya Institute and Zen Center led by JoanHalifax in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The founder Roshi Bernie Glassman has served...
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