Buddhist Tattoos (Sak Yant), their Sacred Tradition and Meaning | History, Culture in Southeast Asia
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ต.ค. 2023
- 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.
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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!
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…
Video idea. Suvarnabhumi kingdom.
That's an interesting topic. I'll try to dig up something
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?
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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.
First time I've heard khmer pronounced correctly 🎉
Thai sakyants are amazing and beautiful :D
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 😁
For more information, th-cam.com/video/xArHxhuT_hg/w-d-xo.htmlsi=JHtCd1hT81iyuO2y
@@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!"
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 😂😂😂😂