Buddhist Tattoos (Sak Yant), their Sacred Tradition and Meaning | History, Culture in Southeast Asia
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- Hello historians. In today's video, we will explore the ancient tradition of yantra tattoos, or Sak Yant, native to mainland Southeast Asia (Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, and Laos). Please join on this exciting journey through history!
For more information about the history and significance of yantra tattoos in Southeast Asian history (from an anthropological perspective) see:
Joanna Cook, “Tattoos, Corporeality and the Self: Dissolving Borders in a Thai Monastery,” The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology 27, 2 (2007/2008): 20-35.
Nicola Tannenbaum, “Tattoos: Invulnerability and Power in Shan Cosmology,” American Ethnologist 14, 4 (Nov 1987): 693-711.
B.J. Terwiel, “Tattooing in Thailand’s History,” The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2 (1979): 156-166.
A post from Stories in History is a special moment in my day. It is always a rewarding few minutes to learn of things beyond my everyday horizons. This overview of sacred tattoos was wonderful. MANY THANKS from Ireland . 🙏
Thanks Irish friend. Glad you enjoyed another video!
Great video. I'm actually planning a vacation in 2024 to get a Sak Yant in Thailand.
Best of luck!
where did you go to get one?
I'll be going to Chiang Mai and working with a company called "Sak Yant Chiang Mai". They have a couple different options for how to get one. You can get it in-house with them, or have them arrange a visit to a Temple to get it there. I'm going to go with the Temple option. @@ireneif.7268
All script is Khmer language, you can search in Google Khmer Script
I would love to get one too. Did you manage to get one?
Video idea. Suvarnabhumi kingdom.
That's an interesting topic. I'll try to dig up something
6:31 This is a Thai/Siamese Pali canon script containing the Khom/Khmer alphabet, which is the Cambodian alphabet. Thanks
Cambodian ppl dont have their own alphabets lol. They're using Khom scripts (ancient Thai alphabets) until today hahha
@@iROChakri How old is your country bro? Is Khom Thai? Khom or Khmer stands for the Khmer people man...
Please don't make me mad. We don't want to make Southeast Asian history fake.😞Why bro.
@@TheCambodianHistoryGuy_English Go google. Don’t get heart broken because Thailand founded in 14th, meanwhile Cambodia founded in 19th. Your today Khmer scripts came from our ancient Thai scripts called Khom scripts zzz …
Very interesting documentary, my family is from Cambodia, never knew really about this tradition...going to look deeper into it!
This is because it probably originated with Thais who lived in Mon cities that fell within the Khmer hegemony. Mon-Thai were Buddhists for about 1000yrs before Khmer finally converted to Buddhism. This is why it's more likely originated with Mon-Thai culture. If there were Hindu tattoos used by the ancient Khmer, none survived. The Tattoos today use Khom/Khmer script, but the script is used to spell Thai and Pali words and the phonetic use is different from Cambodia-Khmer script. This is because early Tai language didn’t have their own script at the time and borrowed the ancient Khmer script and Khom-Thai alphabet was created. This is why Thais find it strange that Cambodians in Cambodia try to claim it as originated with Khmer. I blame it on the Khmer Rouge period. Sad truth is Cambodians educated in Cambodia know very little about their own history/culture because academia in Cambodia hasn’t been able to recover, too much was erased by Pol Pot’s regime. And we have this situation where Cambodia has been influenced so much by Thai culture they can’t tell what is Cambodian and what is Thai and try to Claim everything Thai as Khmer…
@@abmong Your profile picture acc tell everything.
@@user-ci4pw9ew1z Is that all you got? lol
@@abmong why not. we can read ,write, say.How many pp TAI can do it?Ohh shit ....i''m mess ,that talking with Buffalo
@@user-ci4pw9ew1z You can't actually read it unless you can read Thai, this is why it's called Thai-Khom script. The words used in Thai Sak Yant is Thai with some Pali written with Thai-Khom script which was adapted from Ancient Khom/Khmer script.
While many characters are the same in both Thai-Khom and modern Cambodian since both derive from Ancient Khom/Khmer script, some are not, and the characters are not used to reference the same phonetic sounds as the same script characters are used in Cambodian.
So when Cambodians claim you can read it, you actually can't. You'll sound the characters out as in modern Cambodian and produce gibberish words.
Only people who've studied the Thai-Khom script system and knows Thai can fully read it, some old designs require knowledge of Ancient Thai to read and understand. Not all Thais study Thai-Khom or Ancient Thai so not all Thais can read it, but even less Cambodians can read it. You're just lying to yourself when you claim you can. I can ready some of it, but not all.
It's funny because we now have Cambodians who claiming Sak Yant as Khmer, but they copied Thai Sak Yant designs and are walking around with Thai words Tattooed on them without knowing.
Think logically, Tais/Thais were already Buddhists for about 1000years before Khmer converted from Hinduism to Buddhism.
Sak Yant are Buddhists Tattoos so who do you think was more likely to have created the system.
The Bisaya (Visaya) followed Vajrayana Buddhism alongside animism. Interestingly, the Bisaya (Visayan) language uses Middle Chinese and its contemporary Hokkien, in much of its vocabulary. Also the language has many cognates with old Japanese and the Japonic language, Hachijō.
Do you have a source for the connection Bisaya has with Hachijō? I'd love to read up on it
First time I've heard khmer pronounced correctly 🎉
A city state in the Ayeyarwady Region would be in Myanmar not Thailand sice the Ayeyarwady river is entirely within the boundaries of Myanmar. Also in Myanmar these are called soke kwins. A side note. Back in the colonial era this one guy started a farmer rebellion and called his army the Galone Army. He applied everyone in his army with these soke kwin and said that it will protect them against bullets and swords. So these guys covered with these tattoos charged at the British with swords and spears and as you would guess the rebellion did not last too long. The guy's name was Sayar San.
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2:44 You see that? Pre-Funanese. FUNAN. It's not Thai, It's Khmer.
Khmer Sak Yon
Lol, learn some history. Khmer only converted to Buddhism in 13th century. These are Buddhist Yantra tattoos, why would Hindu Khmer invent Buddhist tattoos?
Tai/Thais have been Buddhists since 3rd century. Truth is Thais borrowed Khom script to use in Sak Yant, Khmer didn't create it stop trying to claim everything with no evidence. It only makes you look stupid.
Claimbodia Claim again 😂😂😂😂
@@กายรัชชานนท์-ล6พis reality every sak yont always have Cambodian Language មឪភផតយកលសខឋ thai never understand well those letter
@sothysoy3641 can u translate letterings from this language?
@@กายรัชชานนท์-ล6พThai Sak Yon only works with Khmer letters. Thai Sak Yon doesn't work with only Thai letters.
Thai Sak-Yant, but thousands and thousands of Thai citizens, can't read not even a single alphabet within those Thai yantra ,and still claim that belonging to Thai, but even an 8 years old Cambodian boys/Khmers boys knew that Thai Sak-Yant was purely script in classical Cambodian alphabetical or ancient Khmer alphabetical ,(Cambodian is Khmer /Khmer is Cambodian), you can say whatever, you want to say just to make yourself feel with great pride and dignity but The Truth always reveal as the Truth ,if u carried one's of those powerful spell Thai Sak-Yant or Thai Yant by Thai Ajan (Guru) but denying ,not accepting the truth fact that an ancient Cambodian Ajan/Khmer Ajan (guru)was your great grandmasters as an ancient occult of wisdom, that means your Thai spell, your Thai Yantra, Thai Mantra, Thai Sak-Yant or Thai Yant that you been practicing, all those Thai Sak- Yant /Thai Yant that u carried for protection will become powerless, useless that means it doesn't work at all, and it not good, just want to let u know, but to only to a certain Thai individual that love an ancient occult of wisdom.
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Thai Sakyants are amazing and beautiful. These scripts are Khom scripts (Ancient scripts that Thai scripts today evolved from). Today Khmer scripts that Cambodian people use also came from Khom scripts lol. The reason today Khmer scripts have evolved so little from Khom scripts is because Cambodian aint really creative. Whatever scripts they have been using since Angkorian era, they're still using them until today. Also the culture of "Sak" is from Tai kadai from China. Cambodian people today have adopted Tai-kadai culture of Sak and use simplified Khom scripts (Khmer scripts today) to do Sakyanks.
I love Thai sakyants too , I love to read it to be able to write it especially when seeing how thais Don't know what the f it is , can't read it without shock and die but trying to claim it . 😊
@@KH_waebak Actually many Thai who have Thai tattoos can read just fine. These Khom Thai scripts are everywhere in Phimai temple, and even Angkor wat. After all, the Varmans who build the Angkorian empire were from modern day Thailand. Thanks Cambodian people for loving our Thai cultures, even thought they cant read it 😁
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@@KH_waebak every Thai 40+ year old can read it.
cuz It is an old script that was used in the past.
But in this era, this subject has been removed from the Thai student lesson.
But it's not like Thai ppl can't read. It reads the same as before. Just the script aren't the same as today.
@@DestinationZ75 every Cambodian kindergarten can read it
It's shameful when Thai people try to claim other heritages as their own. Sak Yant belongs to the Khmer, and Thai people only began promoting it when the Khmer were enduring the Khmer Rouge period. Using Khmer script and claiming it as originally Thai? How can that be when we know our land was lost to Siam, yet Khmer people still inhabit the area? Hundreds of years have passed, and while some modern Thai people, who may have Khmer ancestors, still preserve Sak Yant, it was not created by Tai people. If you claim Sak Yant originated from Thailand, then why use Khmer script instead of Thai? It's shameful!"
With all the differences let’s find some common ground , and common practice for the common man
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you are all born with the mark of the ancient Monpas , later also called the mongol mark , the blue birthmark all is you are born with and later dissolves , mongols being one of the inheritors,from the Tibetan plataue where my kaliash also called mt meru but originally called kora koram ( kora means to go around ) the whole mt range is called the korakorrum range, believed to be the center of the world with its peak somewhat allined to the four direction of the compass and from wher the four great rivers of Asian begins also has a salt lake and sweet water lake , signifying life and death
The Tibetan platue was once just called ling/ Mon and the monpas the most ancient of the Asian dna comes from, so they say !!! Rest from Tibetans Chinese Koreans viets , all Asians looking ppl all the way to the people of South America are just their off spring. With the same dna markers and same blue mark on their backside 😂😊
And the ancient symbol also used by the mongol empire , the most ancient symbol( on the left, profile ) the sun, moon the trident on the blue background signifying the ocean and sky and the blue birthmark we are born with)
Basically the Sun and moon with the three pointed flame and also diving falcon and also the trident 🔱 which is also a weapon but also symbolises the past present and future but unlike the Mongolian flag there is a six sided star or two diffrent triangles that makes up the star. The three points that make up tue first triangle signifies , father mother and child ( the base for family and by extension to base of society and the second triangle signifies knowledge will and action and the dot in the middle signifies the individual who is the center / beginning who has trained in knowledge and has the will to take action leading his society and civilisation forward
And the individual practices to better himself by gaining knowledge
does physical exercise to reach his/ her physical optimum
And sits in meditation to better understand his / her knowledge and physical form and mediate into the beyond and the fourth which balances out the individual is to do service for his neighbours , while conducting his own private life be it in business ets but to keep in mind charity and extending help to the less fortunate
So basically an individual who exercise , reads and does mediation and is also a helpful neighbour
Who will one day marry and create a family based on knowledge will and action and the sun and moon signifies living in harmony with nature .
So find your inner superman my mediating , studying and exercising and be a good neighbour ❤❤❤
Secret terma revealed ❤❤❤
Before meditation 🧘 do some exercise or yoga to get the blood flowing or prostrate 108 times
Then take a hot shower followed by a cold 🥶 shower this will wake up your nervous system and fortify ur health
Sit for meditation , start with a dedication prayer or mantra this will wake up your mind and sound vibrations also will help build memory and concentration
Then sit in mediation , first you can use a butter lamp 🪔 look at the fire 🔥 with half closed eyes this will help from distractions and monkey mind also imagine the flame which you see at the middle of your eyebrows. Time to time close your eyes you will see the flame in side your mind . Try placing the flame at the tip of your pineal gland ( see picture of brain to locate pineal gland)
Then take the syombol of the star
And moon with the six pointed star and meditate on it focusing on the dot!
This will also help center the mind and help stop monkey mind . Imagine the dot as a brilliant light in dot form , place that dot at the tip of the pineal gland,
Remember bhuddism is rational science and as the bhuddha said “ behind every other is a reasoning” the pineal gland releases good chemicals that elevate your mood improve your health and remember the body is controlled by electrical pulse that begins in the 🧠 brain ( a though cause an electric ⚡️ pulse that sends orders to the nervous system which in turn controls the muscles 💪
This symbol will help remove inner , outer and secret obstacles and can be placed any where as a flag picture or sticker , but remember what it signifies , living in harmony with each other and nature by an awakened individual who exercise mediates and studies but also remember prayers without action is wishful thinking this a person should while being knowledgeable also follow with will and action to improve his surroundings
Remember all rites , music and prayers cause a physical emotional and mental response and directly effect your body with chemical releash from the brain
Rember the triple gem and follow ur life in the with fold path and you will find liberation without pursuing it , like finding a dollar note on the road by luving in the 8 fold path and exercising studying mediating and doing seva / service ( being a good neighbour) liberation is spontaneously achieved breaking the bonds of karma and the cycle of birth and rebirth
Guru Drogon Dorjilingpa
Thailand steals Sak Yant and Tattooed from Cambodia when Thailand was controlled Cambodia 🇰🇭 from ancient times
It is not steal. The first thai king is brother of khmer king who rise and create new country and new language against his khmer king brother due to disagree. This is the reason language is similar.
He want to be rightfull king of all khmer land that why he wave war against khmer over and over. Later the mindset follow by all thai king to take over khmer.
a khmers characters
U know thai trying to tell the world with their fake history, Maybe be they think we are a kid 😂ចោររសៀម😂
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