Christopher Key Chapple is an Indologist and scholar of the renouncing religions of India, namely yoga, Jainism and Buddhism.
He is Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles.
[1] Chapple received his bachelor's degree in comparative literature and religious studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1976.
He went on to complete his master's degree in Buddhism (1978) and PhD in history of religions (1980) at Fordham University.
He founded the Masters Program in Yoga at Loyola Marymount University, where he is Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology.