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'''Maura "Soshin" O'Halloran''' (May 24, 1955 - October 22, 1982) was an Irish American Zen Buddhist monk.<ref>{{cite book|last=Reynolds (editor)|first=David K.|title=Plunging Through the Clouds|year=1993|publisher=State Univ of New York Press|isbn=0791413136|page=221|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KaucIWZX5lAC&pg=PA221&dq=%22Pure+Heart,+Enlightened+Mind%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=gsG3UsLSBa_IsASun4HgCQ&ved=0CD0Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=%22Pure%20Heart%2C%20Enlightened%20Mind%22&f=false}}</ref> 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".<ref>{{cite journal|last=Woodhouse|first=Mark|title=PAINTED CAKES: BUILDING A PATH TO BUDDHISM|journal=Library Journal|date=1 October 1999|volume=124, Issue 16|issue=16|pages=57|url=http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/2344424/painted-cakes-building-path-buddhism}}</ref>