| LC control no. | n 2017048423 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Halifax, Joan |
| Birth date | 1942-07-30 |
| Place of birth | Hanover (N.H.) |
| Affiliation | John W. Kluge Center (Library of Congress) Upaya (Organization) |
| Special note | Formerly on undifferentiated name record n 82106272 |
| Found in | Introduction to Zen koans, 2018: CIP t.p. (Joan Halifax) Her Shaman, the wounded healer, c1982: t.p. (Joan Halifax) p. 4 of cover (Ph. D.; med. anthropologist & dir. of The Ojai Foundation) Poems by Kali, 1970: t.p. (Joan Halifax) Introduction to Zen koans, 2017: CIP t.p. (Joan Halifax) New Yorker (via Internet), Dec. 21 & 28, 2015: (Joan Halifax, a seventy-three-year-old American teacher of Zen Buddhism; brought up in Coral Gables, Florida; became a research assistant to the musicologist Alan Lomax, at the Bureau of Applied Social Research, at Columbia University; married the Czech psychiatrist Stanislav Grof in 1972; ordained by Seung Sahn and then by Thich Nhat Hanh; founded the Upaya Zen Center, in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1990; her 2008 book, Being with Dying) News from the Library of Congress (via Internet), Mar. 11, 2011 (Joan Halifax, a Zen Buddhist roshi, author and anthropologist will review the recently acquired archive of legendary folklorist Alan Lomax, with whom she worked in the 1960s. In addition, she will focus on her work in the end-of-life care field and will explore the Library's historical resources regarding Buddhism in America; books include include Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death (2008); The Fruitful Darkness: Reconnecting with the Body of the Earth (1994); and Shaman: The Wounded Healer (1988)) Upaya website, Aug. 11, 2017 (Roshi Joan Halifax, Ph.D., is a Buddhist teacher, Zen priest, anthropologist, and pioneer in the field of end-of-life care. She is Founder, Abbot, and Head Teacher of Upaya Institute and Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico; her books include: The Human Encounter with Death (with Stanislav Grof); The Fruitful Darkness; Simplicity in the Complex: A Buddhist Life in America; Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Wisdom in the Presence of Death; Being with Dying: Compassionate End-of-Life Care (Professional Training Guide); Seeing Inside) Wikipedia, Aug. 11, 2017 (Joan Jiko Halifax (born July 30, 1942) in Hanover, New Hampshire; an American Zen Buddhist teacher, anthropologist, ecologist, civil rights activist, hospice caregiver, author of books on Buddhism and spirituality; serves as abbot and guiding teacher of Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a Zen Peacemaker community which she founded in 1990; 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; in March 2011, she was appointed a distinguished visiting scholar at the John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress) |
| Invalid LCCN | n 82106272 |
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