:Josho Pat Phelan

{{Short description|American Buddhist priest}}

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Josho Pat Phelan, Buddhist name Taitaku Josho,{{Cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week445/cover.html |title=Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly . FEATURE . Tensions in American Buddhism . July 6, 2001 {{!}} PBS |website=PBS |access-date=September 2, 2017 |archive-date=March 10, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130310153736/http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week445/cover.html |url-status=dead }} 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.{{Cite news |last=Shimron |first=Yonat |date=October 8, 2000 |title=Installing abbess is a milestone |pages=[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/109168171/ceremony-1/ B1], [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/109168180/ceremony-2/ B3] |work=The News & Observer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/109168171/ceremony-1/ |access-date=November 20, 2022 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{cite book| last =Skinner Keller| first =Rosemary|author2=Rosemary Radford Ruether |author3=Marie Cantlon | title =The Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America| publisher =Indiana University Press| year =2006| isbn = 0-253-34685-1| oclc =61711172 |page=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).{{cite book| last =Boucher| first =Sandy| author-link =Sandy Boucher| title =Opening the Lotus: A Woman's Guide to Buddhism| publisher =Beacon Press| year =1998| url =https://archive.org/details/openinglotus00sand_0| isbn =0-8070-7309-1| url-access =registration |pages=159–160}}{{cite book| last =Wenger| first =Michael| author-link =Michael Wenger| title =Wind Bell: Teachings from the San Francisco Zen Center (1968-2001)| publisher =North Atlantic Books| year =2001| url =https://archive.org/details/windbell00mich| url-access =registration| quote =pat phelan zen.| isbn = 1-55643-381-6 |pages=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.{{cite web| last =Pearce| first =Carolyn| title =A Community of Choices| 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| access-date =2008-03-08}}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Ordained as a priest by Zentatsu Richard Baker{{Cite book |last=Krall |first=Ruth E. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kvgoDwAAQBAJ&dq=Josho+Pat+Phelan&pg=PA226 |title=Living on the edge of the edge : letters to a younger colleague |year=2017 |isbn=978-1-5255-0060-2 |edition=First |location=Victoria, BC |pages=226 |oclc=1007230245}} in 1977, she began Zen practice in 1969 and has also trained under Sojun Mel Weitsman, Robert Baker Aitken and Tenshin Reb Andersonhttp://www.duke.edu/web/meditation/past_speakers.html. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080513092040/http://www.duke.edu/web/meditation/past_speakers.html |date=2008-05-13 }} 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] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080907090615/http://americanzenteachers.org/list.html |date=2008-09-07 }}[http://www.intrex.net/chzg/patsbio.htm Taitaku Pat Phelan Sensei] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080309020526/http://www.intrex.net/chzg/patsbio.htm |date=2008-03-09 }}