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Bronze age beads

Necklace of assorted beads.

Culture: Early Aegean, Minoan.

Period: Bronze Age, Middle Minoan Period

Date: 1800–1550 B.C.

Medium: Stone and gold.

All beings by nature are Buddha, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from beings, no Buddha.

— Hakuin, “Song of Zazen”