Joan Halifax
Personal information
- Known for
- Acting
- Known credits
- 4
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- July 30, 1942
- Place of birth
- Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
- Also known as
- Roshi Joan HalifaxRoshi Joan Halifax, PhD
Biography
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 which she founded in 1990.
