Jiko Linda Cutts

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Jiko Linda Cutts



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Born:	1947
Place of birth:	Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States


Nationality:	American
Religion:	Zen Buddhism
School(s):	Soto
Lineage(s):	Shunryu Suzuki
Title(s):	Priest
Workplace:	Green Gulch Farm San Francisco Zen Center




Predecessor(s):	Tenshin Reb Anderson


Spouse(s):	Steve Weintraub

Children:	Sarah Nancy Cutts Weintraub 2 others
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Jiko Linda Ruth Cutts (b. 1947) is a Sōtō Zen priest practicing in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki, a Senior Dharma Teacher at the San Francisco Zen Center. Cutts is a Dharma heir of Tenshin Reb Anderson, having received Dharma transmission from him in 1996.^[1] She served as co-abbess of the San Francisco Zen Center from 2000 to 2007,^[2] and had first begun practice at the San Francisco Zen Center in 1971;^[3] later, she was ordained a priest by Zentatsu Richard Baker in 1975. Currently living at Green Gulch Farm Zen Center, as abbess she had been aware of the significance in being a woman in a leadership position in religion that has historically been a Patriarchy. In this vein, within her first year as abbess she instituted the ceremony in which female ancestors could be honored.^[1]

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^ ^a ^b Skinner Keller, Rosemary; Rosemary Radford Ruether, Marie Cantlon (2006). The Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America, 643.
^ Resident Teachers and Instructors: Jiko Linda Cutts. San Francisco Zen Center.
^ Ford, James Ishmael (2006). Zen Master Who?: A Guide to the People and Stories of Zen, 130.