Joan Halifax

Author

Bio

Roshi Joan Halifax, Ph.D., is a Buddhist teacher, Zen priest and anthropologist. She is Founder, Abbot, and Head Teacher of Upaya Institute and Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She received her Ph.D. in medical anthropology and received a National Science Foundation Fellowship in Visual Anthropology, was an Honorary Research Fellow in Medical Ethnobotany at Harvard University, and was a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Library of Congress. She is the founder of the Upaya Prison Project and of the Nomads Clinic in Nepal.

Joan Halifax Books

World as Lover, World as Self: 30th Anniversary Edition

Joanna Macy

Introduction to Zen Koans

James Ishmael Ford

Standing at the Edge

Joan Halifax

Faces of Compassion

Taigen Dan Leighton

Being with Dying

Joan Halifax

The Fruitful Darkness

Joan Halifax