Welcome to Neighborhood Zen
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Welcome to Neighborhood Zen, a Pittsburgh sangha in the tradition of San Francisco Zen Center and a member of Branching Streams, meeting in the Greenfield neighborhood, led by Catherine Gammon, with morning, evening, and weekend sittings, dharma study, and occasional longer retreats.
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Catherine Gammon is a Soto Zen priest, ordained in 2005 by Tenshin Reb Anderson Roshi in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki. Before beginning residential Zen training at San Francisco Zen Center’s Tassajara and Green Dragon Temple/Green Gulch Farm, Catherine served on the MFA faculty of the University of Pittsburgh. Since serving as Shuso (head student) at Green Dragon Temple in 2010, Catherine has led retreats and given teachings in Zen and writing in the U.K., in Brooklyn, in Pittsburgh, in Massachusetts, and at SFZC’s Green Gulch Farm Zen Center. She continues her work as a writer and lives in Pittsburgh, with her garden and her cat.
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