Jiko Linda Cutts

Eijun Linda Cutts
Title	Priest
Personal
Born	1947 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Religion	Zen Buddhism
Nationality	American
Spouse	Steve Weintraub
Children	Sarah Nancy Cutts Weintraub 2 others
School	Sōtō
Lineage	Shunryu Suzuki
Senior posting
Based in	Green Gulch Farm San Francisco Zen Center
Predecessor	Tenshin Reb Anderson
Successor	Jisan Tova Green, Keimyō Dario Girolami, Kyoshin Wendy Lewis

Eijun Linda Cutts (born 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. She served as co-abbess of the San Francisco Zen Center from 2000 to 2007, and had first begun practice at the San Francisco Zen Center in 1971; 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. She became Central Abbess of San Francisco Zen Center in 2014.

See also

• Buddhism in the United States
• Timeline of Zen Buddhism in the United States

References

• Ford, James Ishmael (2006). Zen Master Who?: A Guide to the People and Stories of Zen. Wisdom Publications. ISBN 0-86171-509-8.
• Skinner Keller, Rosemary; Rosemary Radford Ruether; Marie Cantlon (2006). The Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-34685-1.