Birth Name:

Joan Halifax

Female

Birth Date:

Thu, Jul 30, 1942

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Hanover, New Hampshire, United States

Age:

81

Zodiac Sign:

Leo

Astrology Data:

Sun

6°

Leo

50'

About 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 which she founded in 1990. Halifax-roshi has received Dharma transmission from both Bernard Glassman and Thich Nhat Hanh, and previously studied with the Korean master Seung Sahn.[citation needed] In the 1970s she collaborated on LSD research projects with her ex-husband Stanislav Grof, in addition to other collaborative efforts with Joseph Campbell and Alan Lomax. She is founder of the Ojai Foundation in California, which she led from 1979 to 1989. As a socially engaged Buddhist, Halifax has done extensive work with the dying through her Project on Being with Dying (which she founded). She is on the board of directors of the Mind and Life Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to exploring the relationship of science and Buddhism.

Link to Wikipedia biography

External Links:

• Joan Halifax at the Upaya Institute and Zen Center

• Joan Halifax at TED

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Joan Halifax: Sun 6 Leo, Moon 15 Pisces, Mercury 3 Leo, Venus 8 Cancer, Mars 28 Leo, Jupiter 11 Cancer, Saturn 9 Gemini, Uranus 3 Gemini, Neptune 27 Virgo, Pluto 5 Leo, Sun Sextile Uranus, Sun Sextile Saturn, Sun Conjunct Mercury, Sun Conjunct Pluto, Mercury Sextile Uranus, Mercury Conjunct Pluto, Venus Conjunct Jupiter, Venus Semi Sextile Saturn, Mars Semi Square Jupiter, Mars Square Uranus, Mars Semi Sextile Neptune, Jupiter Semi Sextile Saturn, Saturn Conjunct Uranus, Uranus Sextile Pluto

Categories related to Joan Halifax: Living people, July 30 births, 1942 births, American anthropologists, New Mexico, Buddhist abbesses, American spiritual writers, American women anthropologists, Writers from Santa Fe, Tulane University alumni, American civil rights activists, Engaged Buddhists, 21st-century American women, American spiritual teachers, Soto Zen Buddhists, Zen Buddhism writers, White Plum Asanga, Women civil rights activists, American Zen Buddhist spiritual teachers, Zen Buddhist nuns, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine alumni, Kwan Um School of Zen

Photo attribution: Adam from USA, Joan Halifax and Tenzin Gyatso