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Joan Halifax Roshi
Buddhist Priest
"Women have more room for failure than men; little is expected of us?. The social expectation is to marry and have children, but if you don?t conform to that expectation, you can have a hell of a lot of fun as an outsider. That's why women are agents of change."
Known for her work with the dying and the imprisoned, Joan Halifax Roshi, an Anglo-Buddhist priest, offers traditional Buddhist practice at Upaya, a Zen center in Santa Fe, New Mexico that she founded and directs. One of the more prominent woman in Buddhism today, she is internationally known as a writer and speaker about Buddhism. Her two key commitments to repairing the world are the Upaya Prison Project that offers programs on meditation for prisoners, and the Project on Being with Dying. Joan Halifax was ordained by two leading Buddhists, Thich Nhat Hanh and Bernard Tetsugen Glassman Roshi.
web site: www.upaya.org
email: upaya@upaya.org
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