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    THANKS TO GUANYIN

    Mar 23, 2021 2 minutes
    —LILLY GREENBLATT, Digital Editor

    IN 2019, I VISITED the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the home of a larger-than-life sculpture of Guanyin, the bodhisattva of compassion.

    The statue, carved from paulownia wood and dating back to twelfth-century China, came to the museum in 1920.

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