18th Nov: TALK 'Compassionate Care of the Dying'
THE FOUNDATION FOR UNIVERSAL RESPONSIBILITY
of His Holiness the Dalai Lama
in collaboration with
CANSUPPORT
Present
A talk on
'Compassionate Care Of The Dying'
by
Joan Halifax Roshi
Date: 18 November Time: 6:30pm – 8:30pm Venue: Gulmohar, India Habitat Centre
The talk by Roshi Joan Halifax, PhD, will explore approaches to care of the dying. It will consider important areas, including: ethical, spiritual, psychological, and social aspects of care of the dying; community-building around dying persons and relationship-centered care; exploration of peri-death phenomena; care of the caregiver; and contemplative approaches to care of the dying and their families.
Joan Halifax Roshi
Joan Halifax Roshi 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 forty years and is Director of the Project on Being with Dying. For the past twenty-five years, she has been active in environmental work.
A Founding Teacher of the Zen Peacemaker Order, her work and practice for more than three decades has focused on engaged Buddhism. Of recent, Roshi Joan Halifax is a distinguished invited scholar to the Library of Congress and the only woman and buddhist to be on the Advisory Council for the Tony Blair Foundation. She is Founder and Director of the Upaya Prison Project that develops programs on meditation for prisoners. She is founder of the Ojai Foundation, was an Honorary Research Fellow at Harvard University, and has taught in many universities, monasteries, and medical centers around the world. She studied for a decade with Zen Teacher Seung Sahn and was a teacher in the Kwan Um Zen School. She received the Lamp Transmission from Thich Nhat Hanh, and was given Inka by Roshi Bernie Glassman. A Founding Teacher of the Zen Peacemaker Order, her work and practice for more than three decades has focused on engaged Buddhism.
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