Taitaku Pat Phelan

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name = Taitaku Pat Phelan


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title = Priest
workplace = Chapel Hill Zen Center
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Taitaku Pat Phelan, Buddhist name Taitaku Josho [ [http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week445/cover.html Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly . FEATURE . Tensions in American Buddhism . July 6, 2001 | PBS ] ] , 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. [Skinner Keller, 640] 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). [Boucher, 159-160] [Wenger, 213-218] 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. [Carolyn Pearce] 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 [http://www.duke.edu/web/meditation/past_speakers.html.] Additionally, Phelan is a member of the American Zen Teachers Association, and in 1995 she received shiho from Sojun Weitsman at Tassajara. [ [http://americanzenteachers.org/list.html Zen Centers of America ] ] [ [http://www.intrex.net/chzg/patsbio.htm Taitaku Pat Phelan Sensei ] ]

ee also

*Buddhism in the United States
*Timeline of Zen Buddhism in the United States

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*cite book| last =Boucher| first =Sandy| authorlink =Sandy Boucher| coauthors =| title =Opening the Lotus: A Woman's Guide to Buddhism| publisher =Beacon Press| date =1998| location =| pages =| url =http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/45734009&referer=one_hit| doi =| id = | isbn = 0807073091
*cite web| last =Pearce| first =Carolyn| authorlink =| coauthors =| title =A Community of Choices| work =| publisher =The Daily Tar Heel| date =2001-04-10| url =http://media.www.dailytarheel.com/media/storage/paper885/news/2001/04/10/UndefinedSection/A.Community.Of.Choices-1343328.shtml| format =| doi =| accessdate = 2008-03-08
*cite book| last =Skinner Keller| first =Rosemary| authorlink =| coauthors =Rosemary Radford Ruether, Marie Cantlon| title =The Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America| publisher =Indiana University Press| date =2006| location =| pages =| url =http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61711172&referer=one_hit| doi =| id = | isbn = 0253346851
*cite book| last =Wenger| first =Michael| authorlink =Michael Wenger| coauthors =| title =Wind Bell: Teachings from the San Francisco Zen Center (1968-2001)| publisher =North Atlantic Books| date =2001| location =| pages =| url =http://books.google.com/books?id=qUjpwK593a0C&dq=%22pat+phelan%22+zen&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0| doi =| id = | isbn = 1556433816