Sevan Ross

Sevan Ross
Sevan Ross
Title	Priest
Personal life
Born	1951 (age 73–74); New Kensington, Pennsylvania, United States
Occupation	Abbot
Religious life
Religion	Zen Buddhism
School	Sōtō and Rinzai
Lineage	Harada–Yasutani
Senior posting
Based in	Chicago Zen Center
Successor	Yusan Graham
	Students Shodhin Geiman;

Sevan Ross (born 1951) is a Zen Buddhist priest and teacher with training backgrounds in both the Sōtō and Rinzai traditions in the Harada-Yasutani lineage.^[1] He is the former abbot and spiritual director of the Chicago Zen Center in Evanston, IL.^[2]

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Ross was sanctioned as a Zen teacher by Bodhin Kjolhede, who was dharma successor of Philip Kapleau.^[3] Ross additionally trained with Toni Packer and James Ford in the lineage of Robert Aitkin. In 2007, he was given dharma transmission by Ford Roshi, who himself holds dharma transmission in both the Aitkin lineage and Jiyu Kennett (Sōtō) lineage.^[4]

Ross is an advocate of vegetarianism.^[4]

His successor as abbot of Chicago Zen Center was Yusan Graham.^[5]

See also