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

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