"It's more about contemplating the notion of a being or a world that is beyond the one that I'm inhabiting."
Curator Soyoung Lee on a pensive bodhisattva.
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What makes this Korean pensive bodhisattva so inviting?
"It's more about contemplating the notion of a being or a world that is beyond the one that I'm inhabiting."
Soyoung Lee
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Soyoung Lee
Curator, Department of Asian Art
Curator, Department of Asian Art
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Korea
mid-7th century