Roshi Joan Halifax
Joan Halifax, Ph.D., is a Buddhist teacher, anthropologist, and the author of several books. She has served on the faculty of Columbia University, the University of Miami School of Medicine, the New School for Social Research, the Naropa Institute, and the California Institute for Integral Studies. Her books include: The Human Encounter with Death (with Stanislav Grof), Shamanic Voices, Shaman: The Wounded Healer, The Fruitful Darkness, Simplicity in the Complex: A Buddhist Life in America, and Being with Dying.
Halifax has worked with individuals suffering from life-threatening illnesses, with indigenous healing systems in southern Florida, with indigenous peoples in Asia and the Americas on environmental and health issues, and with New Mexican prisoners in maximum security centers and on death row. She founded the Ojai Foundation, an educational sanctuary in California in 1979, and Upaya, a Buddhist study center in New Mexico, in 1990. She is the founder of the Project on Being with Dying.
Halifax has practiced Buddhism since the late 1960s and was formally ordained in 1976 by Zen Master Seung Sahn. In 1990, she received the Lamp Transmission from Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh and is a Dharmacarya in the Tiep Hien Order. She is a founding teacher in the Zen Peacemaker Order of Roshi Bernie Glassman and the late Sensei Jishu Holmes and is a Soto Priest and teacher. |
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