Taitaku Pat Phelan

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Taitaku Pat Phelan

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Other name(s): Taitaku Josho
Religion: Soto
Title(s): Priest
Workplace: Chapel Hill Zen Center
Website
Website: http://www.intrex.net/chzg/

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Taitaku Pat Phelan, Buddhist name Taitaku Josho[1], is a Soto Zen priest and current abbot of Chapel Hill Zen Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina—she has served as abbot there since 2000.[2] 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).[3][4] 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.[5] Ordained as a priest by Zentatsu Richard Baker in 1977, she began Zen practice in 1969 and has also trained under Sojun Mel Weitsman, Robert Baker Aitken and Tenshin Reb Anderson[6] Additionally, Phelan is a member of the American Zen Teachers Association, and in 1995 she received shiho from Sojun Weitsman at Tassajara.[7][8]

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  1. ^ Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly . FEATURE . Tensions in American Buddhism . July 6, 2001 | PBS
  2. ^ Skinner Keller, 640
  3. ^ Boucher, 159-160
  4. ^ Wenger, 213-218
  5. ^ Carolyn Pearce
  6. ^ http://www.duke.edu/web/meditation/past_speakers.html.
  7. ^ Zen Centers of America
  8. ^ Taitaku Pat Phelan Sensei

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