Lili Boulanger: Vieille prière bouddhique

Music: French composer, Lili Boulanger (1893 to 1918), recording of Orchestre de L'Association Des Concerts Lamoureux conducted by Igor Markevitch.

Photos by Susan Martin. Scenery of northern Minnesota, USA, in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area.

The English translation of the French text:

May each thing that breathes,
Without enemies, without obstacles,
Overcoming pain and attaining happiness,
Be able to move freely,
Each in the way destined for him.

May all creatures everywhere,
All the spirits and all who have been born,
Without enemies, without obstacles,
Overcoming pain and attaining happiness,
Be able to move freely,
Each in the way destined for him.

May all women,
May all men,
Aryans and non-Aryans,
All gods and all humans and all who have died,
Without enemies, without obstacles,
Overcoming pain and attaining happiness,
Be able to move freely,
Each in the way destined for him.

In the East and in the West,
In the North and in the South,
May all the beings that exist,
Without enemies, without obstacles,
Overcoming pain and attaining happiness,
Be able to move freely,
Each in the way destined for him.

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• Lili Boulanger
• choral music
• BWCA
• Boundary Waters Canoe Area
• Minnesota
• Buddhist prayer

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Lili Boulanger lives on through this music.

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