Christopher Key Chapple

Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology, and Director, Master of Arts in Yoga Studies | Loyola Marymount University

Los Angeles , CA, UNITED STATES

Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts

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Biography

Christopher Key Chapple is Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology and founding Director of the Master of Arts in Yoga Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. A specialist in the religions of India, he has published more than twenty books, including the recent Living Landscapes: Meditations on the Elements in Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain Yogas (SUNY Press). He serves as advisor to multiple organizations including the Forum on Religion and Ecology (Yale), the Ahimsa Center (Pomona), the Dharma Academy of North America (Berkeley), the Jain Studies Centre (SOAS, London), the South Asian Studies Association, and International School for Jain Studies (New Delhi). He teaches online through the Center for Religion and Spirituality (LMU) and YogaGlo.

Recent book: http://www.sunypress.edu/p-6860-living-landscapes.aspx
YogaGlo Classes: https://www.glo.com/preview/teachers/dr-chris-chapple
Master of Arts in Yoga Studies: https://bellarmine.lmu.edu/yoga/

Education (3)

Fordham University: Ph.D., History of Religions 1980

Fordham University : M.A., Buddhism 1978

State University of New York : B.A., Comparative Literature and Religious Studies 1976

Areas of Expertise (5)

Sanskrit Literature

Samkhya Philosophy

Yoga

Jainism

Buddhism

Links (1)

LMU Yoga Studies program

Courses (11)

Religions of the World

Religions of India

Religions of the Far East

Buddhism

Hindu and Jaina Theology

Manitou, Mormons, Masala

Religion and Ecology

Comparative Religious Ethics

Comparative Mysticism (Graduate Level)

Indic Traditions: Vedanta and Yoga (Graduate Level)

Elementary Sanskrit