Joan Halifax

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 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 collabo…