Wat Bang Phra, a temple in central Thailand, is renowned as a center for sak yant, a style of tattoo art believed by some to convey protective powers. An unordained tattoo artist applies ink with ...

Which is why, when I found myself traveling in Thailand earlier this year, I jumped at the chance to sit for a sak yant (AKA sacred tattooing) session with Arjarn Boo, a former monk who studied ...

The sacred form of permanent inking dates back over 2,000 years. Here's what happened when one writer traveled to Thailand to get her own.

Thailand’s warrior king, Naresuan the Great, ... “What you see nowadays from my sak yant art comes from my own ideas and designs that I adapted and created,” he says.

Lost in Translation. As recently as the 1990s, sak yant was still very much a Thai phenomenon, aside from a small number of foreign Muay Thai fighters or temple devotees who found their way into ...

There are only a few gifted people who are able to perform the ancient and mystical Sak Yant tattoo. With the help of CMlocals.com, we were able to find and receive a Sak Yant Tattoo from a skilled ...

I was living here in the late '90s, and it's quite common for Muay Thai fighters to get Sak Yant," he notes. "I think they were kind of like the first, before Angelina Jolie got on the bandwagon.

Brant Daugherty Gets Sak Yant Tattoo In Thailand – See It Here! At first we had no idea what Brant Daugherty was doing in this new pic from his Instagram. But then, we saw that the 29-year-old ...

Spiritual, or sak yant tattoos, ... In 2003, Angelina Jolie returned to the United States from a trip to Thailand bearing a five-row sak yant tattoo on her left shoulder blade.