Biography
Christopher Key Chapple is the Navin and Pratima Doshi Professor of Indic
and Comparative Theology at Loyola Marymount University. Dr. Chapple received
his undergraduate degree in Comparative Literature and Religious Studies
from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and his doctorate
in the History of Religions through the Theology Department at Fordham
University. He served as Assistant Director of the Institute for Advanced
Studies of World Religions and taught Sanskrit, Hinduism, Jainism, and
Buddhism for five years at the State University of New York at Stony Brook
before joining the faculty at LMU.
Dr. Chapple's research interests have focused on the renouncer religious
traditions of India: Yoga, Jainism, and Buddhism. He has published several
books, including Karma and Creativity (1986), a co-translation of
the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (1991) and Nonviolence to Animals,
Earth, and Self in Asian Traditions (1993), Hinduism and Ecology
(2000), a co-edited volume, Jainism and Ecology: Nonviolence in the
Web of Life (2002) and Reconciling Yogas (2003).
Curriculum
Vitae
Pictures of
Christopher in India
|
