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 (1902–1970) 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, then moved to the U.S.A. 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: Edited with M. Sasso: Buddhist and Taoist Studies. 12+162 p. Asian Studies at Hawaii 18.Honolulu 1977.
– T’ien-t’ai Buddhism: An Outline of the Fourfold Teachings. Introduced and edited by D. W. Chappell, translated by the Buddhist Translation Seminar of Hawaii. 191 p. Tokyo 1983.
– Edited: Buddhist and Taoist Practice in Medieval Chinese Society. 7+224 p. Asian Studies at Hawaii 34. Honolulu 1987.
– Unity in Diversity: Hawaii’s Buddhist Communities. 1997
– Buddhist Peace Work: Creating Cultures of Peace. 253 p. Somerville, MA 1999.
Sources: *T.C. Muck, P.O. Ingram & R.L.F. Habito, Buddhist-Christian Studies 25, 2005, v-ix; WikiTree; Wikipedia rather briefly. The same scanty information is repeated in many Internet pages, commons.tsadra.org adds a photo and encyclopedia.com some further details.
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