[Mantra chanting at the Spring Arts Festival, University at Buffalo, 1966] / Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky.

Recorded at the University at Buffalo in 1966 by Allen De Loach for the Poetry Collection on a 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel tape.

Recording of Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky singing prayers at the Spring Arts Festival at the University at Buffalo in 1966. The first of the three prayers could not be identified, but it is a Zen Buddhist prayer, with a title that translates to "Magic formula song to remove all disasters," which was taught to Ginsberg "by an American poet, Gary Snyder, who's been studying Zen Buddhism." Ginsberg and Orlovsky sang the third prayer in Japanese and in English translation.

Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky.

The Poetry Collection of the University Libraries. Digital conversion was made possible through a 2009 National Endowment for the Humanities grant.

1966

Sound recording

INT178A

Magic formula song to remove all disasters --Hare Krishna mantra --Prajnaparamita Sutra mantra.

Hear@Buffalo: The Poetry Collection’s Audio Archive

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