Christopher Key Chapple serves as the Doshi Distinguished Professor of Indic and Comparative and Theology at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, where he joined the faculty in 1985. He is founding director of Yoga Studies at LMU which includes comprehensive certificate programs and America’s first MA in Yoga Studies. He trained in classical Yoga with Gurani Anjali Inti (www.guranianjali.org) from 1972 until her passing in 2001. He has translated numerous texts on Yoga, distilled in the recently published Sourcebook of Yoga Philosophy and Practice (DK Printworld, 2026) which includes the entire Yoga Sutra and Samkhya Karika as well as Yoga excerpts from the Upanisads, the Bhagavad Gita, and core texts from Buddhism and Jainism, including the Yogabindu.
