http://www.thaiguidetothailand.com Thailand, The Country and its People Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:44:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.thaiguidetothailand.com/magic-and-superstition/sacred-skin-sak-yant-magic-tattoo-book/ http://www.thaiguidetothailand.com/magic-and-superstition/sacred-skin-sak-yant-magic-tattoo-book/#comments Fri, 26 Aug 2011 04:33:09 +0000 admin http://www.thaiguidetothailand.com/?p=6593 Information in easy to understand plain English about Sak Yant, the Magic Tattoo or Buddhist Tattoo has been hard to find – until now. Sacred Skin – Thailand’s Spirit Tattoos is a new book by Tom Vater with photography by Aroon Thaewchatturat. Sacred Skin uncovers the mysteries of Sak Yant, which has been a spiritual
[Read more....]]]> http://www.thaiguidetothailand.com/magic-and-superstition/sacred-skin-sak-yant-magic-tattoo-book/feed/ 1 http://www.thaiguidetothailand.com/magic-and-superstition/sacred-ink-sak-yant-magic-tattoo-exhibition/ http://www.thaiguidetothailand.com/magic-and-superstition/sacred-ink-sak-yant-magic-tattoo-exhibition/#comments Fri, 13 May 2011 06:04:18 +0000 admin http://www.thaiguidetothailand.com/?p=6085 Sacred Ink is a photographic and multimedia installation exhibition by Cedric Arnold exploring the world of Sak Yant, the Magic Tattoo. Sacred Ink features over 45 large format black-and-white photographs taken in Thailand, as well as sound, video and multimedia projections bringing us further into the world of spiritual tattoos. A body, used as a
[Read more....]]]> http://www.thaiguidetothailand.com/magic-and-superstition/sacred-ink-sak-yant-magic-tattoo-exhibition/feed/ 1 http://www.thaiguidetothailand.com/magic-and-superstition/sak-yant-mae-tap-commander-in-chief/ http://www.thaiguidetothailand.com/magic-and-superstition/sak-yant-mae-tap-commander-in-chief/#comments Fri, 18 Feb 2011 03:16:50 +0000 admin http://www.thaiguidetothailand.com/?p=5749 The Sak Yant design Mae Tap is one of the great universal Sak Yant designs. Mae Tap means Commander-in-Chief and this gives us the first clue as to the meanings behind this Powerful and Sacred Sak Yant Buddhist Tattoo design. Mae Tap is sometimes referred to as the Guardian Yant. The benefits which the Sak
[Read more....]]]> http://www.thaiguidetothailand.com/magic-and-superstition/sak-yant-mae-tap-commander-in-chief/feed/ 2 http://www.thaiguidetothailand.com/magic-and-superstition/sak-yant-power-of-magic/ http://www.thaiguidetothailand.com/magic-and-superstition/sak-yant-power-of-magic/#comments Sun, 30 Jan 2011 05:54:30 +0000 admin http://www.thaiguidetothailand.com/?p=5662 Sak Yant, the sacred Magic Tattoo or Buddhist Tattoo, when applied by a Buddhist Monk or Brahmin Priest, will confer on the wearer certain benefits and protection. The Sak Yant’s power of magic has been known to Thai people for hundreds of years, long before Buddhism came to Thailand, but Sak Yant has only recently
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[Read more....]]]> http://www.thaiguidetothailand.com/magic-and-superstition/sak-yant-ganesh/feed/ 1 http://www.thaiguidetothailand.com/magic-and-superstition/sak-yant-paed-dan-eight-sided-yant/ http://www.thaiguidetothailand.com/magic-and-superstition/sak-yant-paed-dan-eight-sided-yant/#comments Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:36:37 +0000 admin http://www.thaiguidetothailand.com/?p=4383 The Sak Yant design Paed Dan or Eight Sided Yant is a sacred geometric design similar in meaning to the Paed Tidt Eight Direction Yant. The Paed Dan Yant gives protection to the bearer when traveling in every direction. Whereas the Paed Tidt Yant design contains eight representations of the Lord Buddha, The Paed Dan
[Read more....]]]> http://www.thaiguidetothailand.com/magic-and-superstition/sak-yant-paed-dan-eight-sided-yant/feed/ 0 http://www.thaiguidetothailand.com/magic-and-superstition/sak-yant-phra-narai-song-khrut/ http://www.thaiguidetothailand.com/magic-and-superstition/sak-yant-phra-narai-song-khrut/#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:52:12 +0000 admin http://www.thaiguidetothailand.com/?p=4307 The Sak Yant design, Phra Narai Song Khrut, is a complex Yant containing three figures from the ancient Indian epic, The Ramayana. The Ramayana was adopted by Thailand during the 18th Century, even though the Ramayana contains stories from Hindu mythology and Thailand is a Buddhist country, and became known as the Ramakien. The Ramakien,
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