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Joan Jiko Halifax (born 1942) is an American Zen Buddhist roshi 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 which she founded in 1990. Halifax-roshi has received Dharma transmission from both Bernard Glassman and Thich Nhat Hanh and previously studied under the Korean master Seung Sahn.

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birth date
1942-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
birth place
Hanover New Hampshire, New Hampshire, United States
location
Upaya Institute and Zen Center
predecessor
Thích Nhất Hạnh, Tetsugen Bernard Glassman
religion
Zen
title
Roshi

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