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Joan Halifax

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American Zen Buddhist roshi, anthropologist, ecologist, and civil rights activist

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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.

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Joan with Seung Sahn Soen Sa Nim at the Ojai Foundation in 1979.Joan with Seung Sahn Soen Sa Nim at the Ojai Foundation in 1979.Left to right: Jean Erdman, Joseph Campbell and Joan, at Feathered Pipe Ranch, Montana, late 1970sLeft to right: Jean Erdman, Joseph Campbell and Joan, at Feathered Pipe Ranch, Montana, late 1970s

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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.

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Born 1942 · age 84
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