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Joan Halifax was ordained by Korean Zen Master Seung Sahn and became a teacher in the Kwan Um Zen School. She received the lamp transmission as a dharma teacher from Thich Nhat Hanh, and given Inka, or dharma transmission, by Roshi Bernard Glassman. She is the founder and head teacher of the Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Joan Halifax Roshi

Trungpa Rinpoche was a Buddhist visionary, an artist of great imagination, a wild beardless prophet, and a man with a very human heart. His brief and radical appearance in the Western...

Sarah Coleman’s Reflections on the Vajradhatu seminaries

Sarah Coleman takes us on a tour through the thirteen three-month seminaries led by Trungpa Rinpoche in the 1970s and 80s. From Teton Village, to Rocky Mountain Dharma Center, Sarah gives us her raw impressions of the place, the teachings, the students, the era, and the teacher.