Josho Pat Phelan | |
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Title | Priest |
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Religion | Buddhism |
Denomination | Sōtō[1] |
Other names | Taitaku Josho |
Senior posting | |
Based in | Chapel Hill Zen Center |
Website | http://www.chzc.org |
Josho Pat Phelan, Buddhist name Taitaku Josho,[2] is a Sōtō Zen priest and current abbot of Chapel Hill Zen Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina—she has served as abbot there since 2000.[3][4] Before coming to Chapel Hill, she practiced for twenty years at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center and the San Francisco Zen Center (where she became practice leader and director).[5][6] Phelan began leading the Chapel Hill Zen Center in 1991, when there were just eight members including herself. As of 2001, the center had forty-five members and provides meditation instruction for approximately one-hundred and fifty people every year.[7] Ordained as a priest by Zentatsu Richard Baker[8] in 1977, she began Zen practice in 1969 and has also trained under Sojun Mel Weitsman, Robert Baker Aitken and Tenshin Reb Anderson[9] Additionally, Phelan is a member of the American Zen Teachers Association, and in 1995 she received shiho from Sojun Weitsman at Tassajara.[10][11]
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