| Eijun Linda Cutts | |
|---|---|
| Religion | Zen Buddhism |
| School | Sōtō |
| Lineage | Shunryu Suzuki |
| Personal | |
| Nationality | American |
| Born | 1947 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States |
| Spouse | Steve Weintraub |
| Children | Sarah Nancy Cutts Weintraub 2 others |
| Senior posting | |
| Based in |
Green Gulch Farm San Francisco Zen Center |
| Title | Priest |
| 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.