Provenance

Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary and Ellen Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2013.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: Tokdhan Rimpoche from Eastern Tibet had given oral Transmission of whole Kanjur / "Three Baskets" collection, original Buddhist texts, twice or thrice in India.. For Gelek Rim- / poche's annual summer retreat for a hundred or so of us students, he visited to / transmit Prajnaparamita Sutra, Chanting one-volume short version for several / days in succession: "Gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha!" Highest Perfect / Wisdom Sutra: "All Gone All Gone All overgone all Gone stay-high Now Old Mind so ah~" / we'd rowed across nearby lake to swim, he sat and watched, Yankee Springs State Park, / Michigan, August 27, 1993; on verso, center stamped in black ink: Photograph By / Allen Ginsberg / COPYRIGHT 1994 NYC / ALL RIGHTS RESERVED / Fax 212-675-1686; lower right stamped in black ink: PHOTO INFORMATION: / YEAR [by unknown hand in graphite: 8/22/93] / LOCATION [by unknown hand in graphite: YANKEE SPRINGS RETREAT] / IMAGE # [by unknown hand in graphite: NEGATIVE 25] / SLEEVE # [by unknown hand in graphite: 2011] / PRINTED BY [by unknown hand in graphite: SID KAPLAN (1/24/95)] / NOTE [by unknown hand in graphite: Signed AG 3/29/95]; by unknown hand, bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-267; bottom right in graphite: GDC-705