Dr Chapla Verma, was born and raised in India, and spent several years in Canada. She now lives in the US. In her free time she likes to play golf, read books, do yoga and meditation.
Her professional background is in philosophy and Religion. Her..
Dr Chapla Verma, was born and raised in India, and spent several years in Canada. She now lives in the US. In her free time she likes to play golf, read books, do yoga and meditation.
Her professional background is in philosophy and Religion. Her Master’s degree is in philosophy and doctoral work in Zen Buddhism. She has published a book, ‘Zen Buddhism’ and has contributed a book chapter in ‘Faces of the Feminine in Ancient, Medieval, and Modern India,’ Oxford University Press, New York.
In 2009 she went to Japan to do field research about Soto Zen Buddhism, the findings of this study were presented at UC Berkeley in a conference ‘Buddhism without Borders’ in March 2010. The paper presented was ‘Comparative Study of Zen Buddhism in Japan and North America'
In 2010 summer she did field research in Vancouver , Canada and Hawaii, the focus of this study was to look into how Buddhism established itself and developed at these locations. Both field research projects are supported by APUS research grants. Another Paper ‘Religious Rights of prison Inmates’, has been published in the proceedings of The
Asian Conference on Ethics, Religion and Philosophy 2011.
Two articles, ‘Zen’ and ‘Asvaghosa’ are forthcoming in 'Encyclopedia of Indian Religion' in 2011.
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