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Sevan Ross is a Zen Buddhist priest with training backgrounds in both
the Soto and Rinzai traditions in the Harada-Yasutani lineage. He
was ordained in 1992 as a Zen Buddhist priest by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede,
director of the Rochester Zen Center. Sevan has been training in Zen
since 1976 and has served on the resident staff of the Rochester Zen
Center for eight years where he served as both administrator of the
Center and as Head of head priest (Zendo) in charge of training under
the Roshi.
In 1996 Sensei
Ross became Director of the Chicago Zen Center. Sensei Ross was
then sanctioned as a Zen teacher (Sensei) by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede,
who is the Director of the Rochester Zen Center and a disciple of
Roshi Kapleau. Sensei Ross has trained with four Zen teachers: Roshi
Kjolhede, Roshi Kapleau, Toni Packer, and most recently with Roshi
James Ford, a Robert-Aitkin lineage teacher. Working with Roshi
Ford, he completed the Harada-Yasutani koan curriculum, and in 2007
was given Dharma Transmission by Ford Roshi, who himself holds Dharma
Transmission in both the Aitkin lineage and Jiyu Kennett (Soto Line)
lineage.
Sevan Ross is vegetarian.
" It is
action that embodies what we are so capable of as spiritual practitioners
— lifting ourselves above our petty desires in order not to
cause suffering and abuse. Vegetarianism has remained embedded in
much of the Buddhist community not so much because of what the Buddha
did or said so long ago, but because it squares with the compassionate
life. Even if we do not see the creature killed, and even if it
was not killed for us specifically, it was slaughtered for the market,
and we create that market with our desire."
See also the
interview by Gabe Konrad
• Source:
Chicago
Zen Centre.
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