CHAPPELL, David Wellington. Saint John, New Brunswick 3.2.1940 — Laguna Hills, CAL 2.12.2004. Canadian Buddhist Scholar in the U.S.A. Son of Hayward Lynsin Chappell and Mary Elvira Mosher. B.A. 1961 Mount Allison University. B.D. 1965 McGill University. Ph.D. 1976 Yale, in History of Religions. In 1964-66 Minister of United Church of Canada at Elma, Ontario. Taught thirty years (1971-2000) as Professor of Religion at the University of Hawaii. In retirement taught from 2000 at Soka University of America, Los Angeles. Died of heart failure. Married 1960 Bertha Vera Bidulock (divorce 1976) and 1981 Stella Quemada, four daughters and one son. A specialist of Chinese Buddhism.
Publications:Buddhist and Taoist Studies. Honolulu 1977 (with M. Sasso); Buddhist and Taoist Practice in Medieval Chinese Society. Honolulu 1987; Unity in Diversity: Hawaii’s Buddhist Communities. 1997.
– T’ien-t’ai Buddhism: An Outline of the Fourfold Teachings. 1983; Buddhist Peace Work: Creating Cultures of Peace. Somerville, MA 1999.
Sources: *T.C. Muck, P.O. Ingram & R.L.F. Habito, Buddhist-Christian Studies 25, 2005, v-ix; Wikipedia briefly. The same scanty information is repeated in many Internet pages, commons.tsadra.org adds a photo and www.encyclopedia.com some further details.
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