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Josho Pat Phelan Buddhist name Taitaku Josho 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. 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). Phelan began leading the Chapel Hill Zen Center in 1991 when there were just eight members including herself.