Joan Halifax
American Zen Buddhist roshi, anthropologist, ecologist, and civil rights activist · United States · On the map · Academics · Born 1942 · age 84
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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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.
