About Kyoshin Wendy Lewis

Kyoshin Wendy Lewis has been practicing at San Francisco Zen Center since 1987, including living for six years at Tassajara. She was ordained by Sojun Mel Weitsman in 1997 and completed Dharma Transmission with Eijun Linda Cutts in December 2012. She served twice as shuso (head student), once as a lay practitioner and again as a priest. Through her interest in extended priest training, she participated in a one-year chaplain training program at UCSF Medical Center and completed a Masters of Theology at the University of San Francisco. She has held senior staff and administrative positions at SF Zen Center as well as working as the Web Editor. Over the last several years, she has been Dean of the Zen Center School in the Central Abbess/Abbot's Department and has returned to the Web Editor position. She managed the Sewing Room, making meditation cushions, zabutons, and oryoki cloths, and learned how to make priest robes. She is a qualified teacher of ordination sewing.