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Joan Halifax, Ph.D. is a Buddhist teacher, Shaman and anthropologist.
Her academic teaching credentials include being on the faculty of Columbia University, the University of Miami School of Medicine, the New School for Social Research, the Naropa Institute and the California Institute for Integral Studies.
Her books include: "SHAMANIC VOICES: A Survey of Visionary Narratives," wherein she writes of the curandera Shaman Maria Sabina among others, and "Shaman: the Wounded Healer." She has also contributed to a number of works including "HALFWAY UP THE MOUNTAIN: The Error of Premature Claims to Enlightenment" by Mariana Caplan.
Joan has worked with individuals suffering from life-threatening illnesses since 1970. She has worked with indigenous healing systems in southern Florida and with indigenous peoples in Asia and the Americas on environmental and health issues.
In 1990 she founded Upaya in Santa Fe, NM, where she now practices, teaches, and works in the New Mexico Penitentiary with maximum-security prisoners and men on death row, works with individuals who have catastrophic illnesses and is the founder of the Project on Being with Dying.
She has practiced Buddhism since the late 1960s and was formally ordained in 1976 by Zen Master Seung Sahn. In 1990, she received the Lamp Transmission from Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh and is a Dharmacarya in the Tiep Hien Order. She is a Founding Teacher in the Zen Peacemaker Order of Roshi Bernie Glassman and the late Sensei Jishu Holmes and is a Soto Priest and teacher.
Other Buddhist Shamans that may be of interest are Tserin Zarin Boo, Lyn Roberts-Herrick, and Jeffrey Ellis.
SEE:
AKANKHEYYA SUTTA: Vol. XI of The Sacred Books of the East
ISBN: 0140193480 - Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Putnam
Published Date: 08/01/1991
ZEN ENLIGHTENMENT IN A NUTSHELL
OBEAH: SHAMAN-SORCERER
OCCULT, BLACK ARTS, OR IMPLEMENT OF GOOD?
WE DO NOT HAVE SHAMANS
The Case Against "Shamans" In the
North American Indigenous Cultures
HIKING AND MEDITATION
ALONG METEOR CRATER
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