CHARLES S. PREBISH ADDRESS: 2465 Circleville Road Telephone: 814-308-8630 Unit 137 Cell: 814-571-0220 State College, Pennsylvania 16803 E-Mail: U.S.A. [email protected] [email protected] charles.prebish @jbeonlinebooks.org BIRTHDATE: 11 October 1944 MARITAL STATUS: Married, 2 Children EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: B.A. (Chemistry) Western Reserve University, 1966 M.A. (Religion) Case Western Reserve University, 1968 Ph.D. (Buddhist Studies) University of Wisconsin, 1971 EMPLOYMENT: 2007-2010: Charles Redd Endowed Chair in Religious Studies, Utah State University, Logan, Utah; Director of Religious Studies Program. Now Professor Emeritus. 1971-2006: Professor of Religious Studies, The Pennsylvania State University. Now Professor Emeritus 1997-1998: Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Religion, The University of Toronto Fall 1993: Yehan Numata Distinguished Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies, The University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada Summer 1975: Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies, Naropa Institute, Boulder, Colorado. Summer 1974: Visiting Professor of Sanskrit, Naropa Institute, Boulder, Colorado. 1968-1970: Research Assistant to Professor Richard H. Robinson, The University of Wisconsin, Department of Indian Studies. 2 Spring 1967: Teaching Assistant to Professor David M. Miller, CaseWestern Reserve University, Department of Religion. MAJOR PUBLICATIONS BOOKS Looking West: A Primer for Amercian Buddhism. Amazon Kindle Edition, 2011. An American Buddhist Life: Memoirs of a Modern Dharma Pioneer. Toronto: The Sumeru Press Inc., 2011, 266 pages. Co-Editor. Destroying Māra Forever: Buddhist Studies Essays in Honor of Damien Keown. Ithaca, New York: Snow Lion Publications, 2009. Co-Edited with John Powers, 284 pages. Co-Editor. Revisioning Karma: The eBook. Journal of Buddhist Ethics Online Books (www.jbeonlinebooks.org), 2007. Co-Edited with Dale Wright and Damien Keown, 424 pages. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Buddhism. London: Routledge, 2007. Co-Edited with Damien Keown, xxviii + 923 pages. Introducing Buddhism. London: Routledge, 2006. Co-authored with Damien Keown, 299 pages. Second edition, December 2009. Buddhism: The e-Book. Journal of Buddhist Ethics Online Books (www.jbeonlinebooks.org), 2004. Co-Authored with Damien Keown, 391 pages. Second Edition, August 2005. Third edition, August 2006. Buddhism: The American Experience. Journal of Buddhist Ethics Online Books (www.jbeonlinebooks.org), 2004, 165 pages. Co-Editor. Buddhism in the Modern World: Adaptations of an Ancient Tradition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Co-Edited with Steven Heine, 287 pages. Co-Editor. Action Dharma: New Studies in Engaged Buddhism. London: Routledge Curzon Press, 2003. Co-edited with Damien Keown and Christopher Queen, 365 pages. Co-Editor. Westward Dharma: Buddhism Beyond Asia. University of California Press, 2002. Co- Edited with Martin Baumann, 415 pages. The A to Z of Buddhism. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 2001. Revised and updated version of Historical Dictionary of Buddhism, 280 pages. First Indian edition, New Delhi: Vision Books, 2003. 3 Luminous Passage: The Practice and Study of Buddhism in America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999, 334 pages. Co-Editor: The Faces of Buddhism in America. Berkeley: University of California Presss, 1998. Co-edited with Kennth K. Tanaka, 370 pages. Co-Editor: Buddhism and Human Rights. Surrey, England: Curzon Press, 1997. Co-edited with Damien Keown and Wayne Husted, 239 pages. Now published by Routledge Curzon Press. A Survey of Vinaya Literature. Originally, Volume I of The Dharma Lamp Series. Taipei, Taiwan: Jin Luen Publishing House, 1994, 157 pages. Now published by Routledge Curzon Press. Historical Dictionary of Buddhism. Volume I of Historical Dictionaries: Religions, Philosophies, and Movements. Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press, 1993, 386 pages. First Indian Edition, Delhi: Sri Satguru Publications, 1995. New American edition in press. Editor: Religion and Sport: The Meeting of Sacred and Profane. Volume 36 of Studies in Popular Culture. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1992, 243 pages. Editor: Buddhist Ethics: A Cross-Cultural Approach. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1992, 228 pages. American Buddhism. North Scituate, Massachusetts: Duxbury Press, 1979, 220 pages. Editor: Buddhism: A Modern Perspective. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1975, 330 pages. Fourth printing, 1989. First Indian Edition, Delhi: Sri Satguru Publications. 1995. Buddhist Monastic Discipline: The Sanskrit Prātimokṣa Sūtras of the Mahāsāṃghikas and Mūlasarvāstivādins. Volume I of the Institute for Advanced Studies of World Religions Series. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1975, 156 pages. First Indian Edition, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1996. Co-editor (with Jane I. Smith): Introduction to Religions of the East: Reader. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1974, 182 pages. REFEREED ARTICLES "The Role of Prātimokṣa Expansion in the Rise of Indian Buddhist Sectarianism." Pacific World, Third Series 9 (Fall 2007), 33-48. "North American Buddhist Studies: A Current Survey of the Field." Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 30, 1-2, 2007 (2009), 237-266. 4 "Cooking the Buddhist Books: The Implications of the New Dating of the Buddha for the History of Early Indian Buddhism." Journal of Buddhist Ethics 15 (2008), 1-21. "Can Buddhist Monastic Ethics Serve Modern Society?" Journal of Religion, Conflict, and Peace 1 (2007), 29 pages (online journal). "Spritual Kinship in the Global Buddhist Community." Religious Studies and Theology, 22, 1 (2003), 27-43. "Ambiguity and Conflict in the Study of Buddhist Ethics." Journal of Religious Ethics, 24, 2 (Fall 1996), 295-303. "Śaikṣa-dharmas Revisited: Further Considerations of Mahāsāṃghika Origins." History of Religions, 35, 3 (February, 1996), 258-270. "Ideal Types in Indian Buddhism: A New Paradigm" (Review Article on Reginald Ray's Buddhist Saints in India: A Study in Buddhist Values and Orientations). Journal of the American Oriental Society, 115, 4 (October-December, 1995), 651-666. "Ethics and Integration in American Buddhism." Journal of Buddhist Ethics 2 (1995), 125-139. "The Academic Study of Buddhism in America: A Current Analysis." Religion, 24, 3 (July, 1994), 271-278. "Text and Tradition in the Study of Buddhist Ethics." Pacific World, New Series 9 (1993), 49-68. "Two Buddhisms Reconsidered," Buddhist Studies Review, X, 2 (1993), 187-206. "Buddhist Ethics Comes of Age: Damien Keown and The Nature of Buddhist Ethics." Buddhist Studies Review, X, 1 (1993), 95-108. "Modern Buddhist Ethics in Asia and America." Pacific World, New Series 8 (1992), 40-47. "Heavenly Father, Divine Goalie: Sport and Religion." The Antioch Review, 42, 3 (Summer, 1984), 306-318. Reprinted in Shirl Hoffman (ed.), Sport and Religion (Champaign, Ill.: Human Kinetics Books, 1992), 43-53. "Buddhist Studies American Style: A Shot in the Dark." Religious Studies Review, 9, 4 (October, 1983), 323-330. "Mahāsāṃghika Origins: The Beginnings of Buddhist Sectarianism." History of Religions, 16, 3 (February, 1977), 237-272. Co-authored with Janice J. Nattier. "The Prātimokṣa Puzzle: Fact Versus Fantasy." Journal of the American Oriental Society, 94, 2 5 (April-June, 1974), 168-176. "A Review of Scholarship on the Buddhist Councils." Journal of Asian Studies, XXXIII, 2 (February, 1974), 239-254. "Theories Concerning the Skandhaka: An Appraisal." Journal of Asian Studies, XXXII, 4 (August, 1973), 669-678. CHAPTERS “American Buddhism: Looking Backward, Looking Forward. In Buddhism Around the World. Edited by Thich Nhat Tu. Phu Nhuan, Vietnam: Vietnam Buddhist University & Buddhism Today Foundation, 2019, pp. 701-728. “The Vinaya.” In The Oxford Handbook of Buddhist Ethics. Edited by Daniel Cozort and James Mark Shields. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018, pp. 96-115. “The Birth of Online Peer-Reviewed Journals in Buddhism: The Story of the Journal of Buddhist Ethics and the Journal of Global Buddhism.” In Buddhism, the Internet and Digital Media: The Pixel in the Lotus. Edited by Daniel Veidlinger and Gregory Grieve. London: Routledge, 2015, pp. 79-92. “Cooking the Buddhist Books: The Implications of the New Dating of the Buddha for the History of Early Indian Buddhism.” In Wading into the Stream of Wisdom: Essays in Honor of Leslie S. Kawamura. Edited by Sarah Haynes and Michelle Sorensen. Berkeley: Institute of Buddhist Studies and BDK America, Inc., 2013, pp. 229-245. “When the Iron Bird Flies: Seeking Western Buddhism in the Classroom.” In Teaching Buddhism. Edited by Gary DeAngelis and Todd Lewis. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016, pp. 213-236. "The Emergence of American Buddhism.” In The Buddhist World. Edited by John Powers. London: Routledge 2015, pp. 138-155. “The Buddhist Sangha: Buddhism’s Monastic and Lay Communities.” In The Buddhist World. Edited by John Powers. London: Routledge, 2015, pp. 399-416. "American Buddhism: Looking Backward, Looking Forward.” In 2600 Years of Sambuddhatva: Global Journey of Awakening. Edited by Oliver Abenayake and Asanga Tilakaratne. Columbo: Ministry of Buddhasasana and Religious Affairs, Government of Sri Lanka, 2012, pp. 495-507. "The Silent Sangha: Scholar Practitioners in American Buddhism." In Buddhism as a Stronghold of Free Thinking: Social, Ethical and Philosophical Dimensions of Buddhism. Edited by Siegfried C. A. Fay and Ilse Maria Bruckner. Nusttal, Germany: St.