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Maura O'Halloran
Irish Zen Buddhist monk
Maura "Soshin" O'Halloran (May 24, 1955 - October 22, 1982) was an Irish Zen Buddhist monk.[1] She is known for her book Pure Heart, Enlightened Mind, which was posthumously published, and for being one of the "first of few Western women allowed to practice in a traditional Japanese Zen monastery".[2]
Biography
O'Halloran was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1955 and her parents moved to Ireland when she was four years old.[3][4] Her father was originally from County Kerry while her mother was native of Maine.[4] In Ireland, O'Halloran was educated in Loreto College, Foxrock in Dublin and later attended Trinity College Dublin, where she graduated with a joint degree in mathematical economics/statistics and sociology.[3] Shortly after her graduation O'Halloran travelled to Japan, where she studied to become a Zen monk at Toshoji in Tokyo and at Kannonji in the Iwate Prefec