Upaya Institute and Zen Center, Buddhist meditation center in Santa Fe, United States.

Upaya Institute and Zen Center is a residential Zen practice center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, founded by Joan Halifax Roshi. It combines traditional Zen practice with social action, offering a four-month residency program with the option of a long-term commitment for practitioners living in community.

Joan Halifax Roshi founded Upaya Institute and Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In 2002 she also founded the Prajna Mountain Buddhist Order, a nonprofit Buddhist order in the lineage of Taizan Maezumi Roshi, the Zen Peacemaker Order and White Plum Asanga.

Upaya's name comes from the Sanskrit term for skillful means, and its programs apply Zen practice to prison work, care of the dying, environmental protection, women's rights and peace work. Joan Halifax also founded the Prajna Mountain Buddhist Order in 2002, a nonprofit order in the lineage of Taizan Maezumi Roshi, the Zen Peacemaker Order and White Plum Asanga.

Upaya offers a four-month residential program for Zen practitioners, with the option of a long-term commitment. The center is in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and combines practice with social action in areas such as death and dying, prison work, the environment, women's rights and peace work.

Upaya's service work spans death and dying, prison ministry, the environment, women's rights and peace work. In 2002 Joan Halifax founded the Prajna Mountain Buddhist Order, a nonprofit in the lineage of Taizan Maezumi Roshi, the Zen Peacemaker Order and White Plum Asanga.