Jiko Linda Cutts

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name = Jiko Linda Cutts


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birth_date = 1947
birth_place = Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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nationality = American
denomination = Zen Buddhism
school = Soto
lineage = Shunryu Suzuki
title = Priest
workplace = Green Gulch Farm
San Francisco Zen Center
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children = Sarah Nancy Cutts Weintraub
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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.cite book| last =Skinner Keller| first =Rosemary| authorlink =| coauthors =Rosemary Radford Ruether, Marie Cantlon| year =2006| title =The Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America| pages= 643] She served as co-abbess of the San Francisco Zen Center from 2000 to 2007, [cite web| last =| first =| authorlink =| coauthors =| title =Resident Teachers and Instructors: Jiko Linda Cutts| work =| publisher =San Francisco Zen Center| date =| url =http://www.sfzc.org/zc/display.asp?catid=3,76,107&pageid=210| format =| doi =| accessdate = ] and had first begun practice at the San Francisco Zen Center in 1971; [cite book| last =Ford| first =James Ishmael| year =2006| title =Zen Master Who?: A Guide to the People and Stories of Zen| pages= 130] 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.

ee also

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

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*cite book| last =Ford| first =James Ishmael| authorlink =James Ishmael Ford| coauthors =| title =Zen Master Who?: A Guide to the People and Stories of Zen| publisher =Wisdom Publications| date =2006| location =| pages =| url =http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70174891&referer=one_hit| doi =| id = | isbn = 0861715098
*cite book| last =Skinner Keller| first =Rosemary| authorlink =| coauthors =Rosemary Radford Ruether, Marie Cantlon| title =The Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America| publisher =Indiana University Press| date =2006| location =| pages =| url =http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61711172&referer=one_hit| doi =| id = | isbn = 0253346851