Gelek Rimpoche from Lhasa and Ann Arbor unwrapping Tibetan text & beginning to chant it, Tokden Rinpoche, handling brass Vajia (Diamond Lightning Bolt) and Ghanta (Bell) Sonam, former chanting. master of Gyuto Tantric College idling behind them at picnic table outside lodge shrine-room after lunch, "just fooling around rather than having a ceremony." Sonam came in from Chicago, Tokden from Eastern Tibet to give oral Transmissions of one-volume short-form Prajnaparamita [Highest perfect wisdom] Sutra to Gelek's hundred students. "Gate Gate Para Gate Parasamgate Bodhi Svaha!" Over annual summer retreat, Yankee Springs State Park, Michigan, August 27, 1993.
1993, printed 1995
Artist, American, 1926 - 1997
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 7 × 32.5 cm (2 3/4 × 12 13/16 in.)
sheet: 27.8 × 35.4 cm (10 15/16 × 13 15/16 in.) -
Accession
2015.163.37
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2015.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: Gelek Rimpoche from Lhasa and Ann Arbor unwrapping Tibetan text & beginning to / chant it, Tokden Rinpoche handling brass Vajia (Diamond Lightning Bolt) and Ghanta (Bell) / Sonam, former chanting. master of Gyuto Tantric College idling behind them at picnic / table outside lodge shrine- room after lunch, "just fooling around rather than having / a ceremony." Sonam came in from Chicago, Tokden from Eastern Tibet to give oral / Transmissions of one-volume short-form Prajnaparamita [Highest perfect wisdom] Sutra / to Gelek's hundred students. "Gate Gate Para Gate Parasamgate Bodhi Svaha!" Over / annual summer retreat, Yankee Springs State Park, Michigan, August 27, 1993.; on verso, by artist, upper right in graphite: Signed 9/15/95 / A.G.; by unknown hand, bottom center in graphite: GD-AG-268; bottom right in graphite: GDC-813