buddhist clock?

I don’t know if this is really a “Buddhist” clock or not (the site implies it’s more African than anything), but it looks unmistakably like mala beads to me — and it’s just freakin’ cool!

buddhist clock

FTA: “Each bead in the necklace is 5 minutes. The whole necklace is one solar day. The orange and red ones represent the whole hours. As the wheel turns, one bead falls off and drops down the string every 5 minutes. To tell the time you count the beads from either the silver bead (midnight) or the golden bead (noon) to the last bead that fell off the wheel.”

Read the whole thing.

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