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The work incorporates as primary components both a mural-size video projection on the wall and a miniature color TV monitor sequestered inside a tiny, monastic, cell-like shack.

Her story is not so rare at Curtis, an extremely selective, tuition-free school whose roughly 150 students come from around the world to study with almost monastic focus.

They study with nearly monastic focus, with the numbers and skill to operate as a world-class orchestra and opera company.

“Korean Buddhist monks had a perception of: ’How dare he flaunt his looks and does Instagram as someone who became monastic,’” Beomjeong said.

He combined both history and law in his debut novel Dissolution, which took readers into the dark heart of Tudor England in a gripping novel of monastic treachery and death.