E. Ciurtin's The Buddha's Earthquakes

Dear Members,

A new member of our group, Dr. Eugen Ciurtin, sent me an interesting
article published in an academic journal last year. It is the first part
with the second part forthcoming. He has given me permission to forward a
PDF copy of the journal (7.1 MB) to any member interested in receiving a
copy. Please contact me offlist for a copy. I have attached below part of
the first page (p. 59) with an outline of the contents.

Best wishes,

Jim Anderson

STVDIA ASIATICA X (2009), p. 59-123

THE BUDDHA’S EARTHQUAKES [I]
ON WATER: EARTHQUAKES AND SEAQUAKES
IN BUDDHIST COSMOLOGY AND MEDITATION,
WITH AN APPENDIX ON BUDDHIST ART

                                         E. CIURTIN
Institute for the History of Religions, Romanian Academy, Bucharest

Moving of th’ earth brings harms and fears;
Men reckon what it did, and meant;
But trepidation of the spheres,
Though greater far, is innocent.
John DONNE, A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
(1611?), vv. 9-12

I. The setting. II. The Sutta of earthquakes. III. One way, six ways of
quaking. IV. Meditation, cosmology, earthquakes. V. Tranquil water: joy as
imperfection. VI. Earthquakes substituted by seaquake or flood: the Sea
Goddess and the Earth Goddess in Southeast Asia (Cambodia, Siam, Thailand,
Burma). VII. Appendix: Earthquakes in Buddhist Art: illustrations from
Magadha, Nepal, Xingjian, Qizil, Burma, Thailand. VIII. Integrating the
earthquake into a work of art: Brâncusi’s project at Indore (1921-1939). IX.
General observations.