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.
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...