Roshi Joan Halifax 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. She has worked in the area of death and dying for over thirty years and is Director of the Project on Being with Dying. [...]

Biography of D.T. Suzuki D.T. Suzuki (18 Oct. 1870-12 July 1966), the foremost exponent of Zen Buddhism in the West, was born Teitar? Suzuki, the son of Ryojun Suzuki, a physician, and his wife, Masu (full name unknown), in what is now the city of Kanazawa in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. He was the youngest of [...]

Biography of Thich Nhat Hanh Zen Master, poet, peace and human rights activist, Thich Nhat Hanh was born in central Vietnam in 1926 and joined the monkhood at the age of 16. In Saigon in the early 1960′s, he founded the School of Youth for Social Services (SYSS), a grass roots relief organization that rebuilt [...]