Charles S. Prebish

Religion and Sport：The Meeting of Sacred and Profane

Preface Introduction Religion: Approaches and Assumptions by Charles S. Prebish The Sports Arena: Some Basic Definitions by Charles S. Prebish Religion and Sport: Convergence or Identity? by Charles S. Prebish Anthology Sport and Religion by D. Stanley Eitzen and George H. Sage An Existential Phenomenological Analysis of Sport as a Religious Experience by William J. Morgan The Joy of Sports by Michael Novak Sport and the Religious by Howard Slusher The Emergence of Born Again-Sport by Brian W. W. Aitken Conclusion Training into Transcendence by Charles S. Prebish Bibliography

A Review of Scholarship on the Buddhist Councils

The problem of Buddhist councils has haunted western Buddhological research through almost all of its last one hundred years. At once, we see that a twopronged approach is necessary if we are to ever have any hope of arriving at a resolution. The first of these involves a consideration of the relationship between the Vinaya council accounts and the Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra, this latter text preserved in the Sūtra Piṭakas of the various schools and providing a detailed account of [1] the Buddhas travels immediately prior to his death, [2] the actual passing into parinirvāṇa, and [3] the funeral arrangements. Here the Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra account concludes, but the details which are associated with the next allegedly historical events, namely, the council narratives, are found in the Skandhakas of the various Vinayas. Scholars began to question why the council proceedings, logically following the Buddhas death and funeral, are preserved in a separate text.

Theories Concerning the SKANDHAKA: An Appraisal@@@The Earliest Vinaya and the Beginnings of Buddhist Literature.@@@Volume VIII of Serie Orientale Roma.

The Earliest Vinaya and the Beginnings of Buddhist Literature . By Erich Frauwallner. Volume VIII of Serie Orientate Roma . Edited by Giuseppe Tucci. Rome: Institute per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente, 1956.