Joan Halifax Roshi, PhD is a Buddhist teacher, Zen priest, anthropologist, and author. She is Founder, Abbot, and Head Teacher of Upaya Zen Center a Buddhist monastery in Santa Fe, New Mexico. A Founding Teacher of the Zen Peacemaker Order, her work and practice for more than three decades has focused on engaged Buddhism. She has worked in the area of death and dying for over thirty years and is Director of the Project on Being with Dying. For the past twenty-five years, she has been active in environmental work. She is Founder and Director of the Upaya Prison Project that develops programs on meditation for prisoners.

Roshi Joan has studied for a decade with Zen Teacher Seung Sahn and was a teacher in the Kwan Um Zen School. She received the Lamp Transmission from Thich Nhat Hanh, and was given Inka by Roshi Bernie Glassman. She is founder of the Ojai Foundation, was an Honorary Research Fellow at Harvard University, and has taught in many universities, monasteries, and medical centers around the world. Roshi Joan is the author of several books including Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death.

Long life prayer for Joan Halifax Roshi

JAM DANG NYING JE THAP SHE ZUNG WE GON

May you remain with us until the cyclic continuum of suffering is exhausted

Joan Halifax Roshi