# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joan-halifax
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:40:15.066Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joan-halifax"
name: "Joan Halifax"
slug: "joan-halifax"
description: "Joan Jiko Halifax 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 she founded in 1990. Halifax has received Dharma transmission from Bernard Glassman, and previously studied with the Korean zen master Seung Sahn."
tagline: "American Zen Buddhist roshi, anthropologist, ecologist, and civil rights activist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joan_Halifax_and_the_Dalai_Lama.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
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birthDate: "1942-07-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     70
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ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump