Sevan Ross

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| birth_date = 1951

| birth_place = New Kensington, Pennsylvania, United States

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| religion = Zen Buddhism

| school = Sōtō and Rinzai

| lineage = Harada–Yasutani

| title = Priest

| location = Chicago Zen Center

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| occupation = Abbot

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| successor = Yusan Graham

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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.{{Cite book |last=Ford |first=James Ishmael |title=Zen master who? a guide to the people and stories of Zen |date=2006 |publisher=Wisdom Publications |isbn=978-0-86171-509-1 |location=Boston |pages=159}} He is the former abbot and spiritual director of the Chicago Zen Center in Evanston, IL.{{cite web|title=Sevan Ross, Lecturer in World Religions|url=http://www.lstc.edu/about/faculty/sevan-ross/|website=Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago|accessdate=2 March 2016}}

Ross was sanctioned as a Zen teacher by Bodhin Kjolhede, who was dharma successor of Philip Kapleau.{{Cite book |last=Nelson |first=Marcia Z. |title=Come and Sit |year=2013 |isbn=9781594735318}} 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.{{Cite web |title=Sensei Sevan Ross (1951 - ) |url=https://www.shabkar.org/teachers/chan/sensei_sevan_ross.htm |access-date=2024-11-27 |website=www.shabkar.org}}

Ross is an advocate of vegetarianism.

His successor as abbot of Chicago Zen Center was Yusan Graham.{{Cite web |title=Our Lineage |url=https://www.chicagozen.org/our-lineage |access-date=2024-11-27 |website=Chicagozencenter |language=en}}