Blanche Hartman
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Zenkei Blanche Hartman is a former abbess of the San Francisco Zen Center. She began practicing Zen in 1969 at the Berkeley Zen Center with Sojun Mel Weitsman and in San Francisco with Suzuki-Roshi. She was priest ordained in 1977 by Zentatsu Baker-Roshi and received dharma transmission with Sojun Mel Weitsman in 1988. Zenkei became abbess of San Francisco Zen Center in February of 1996. She is married to Shuun Lou Hartman. They have four children and five grandchildren.