Sakyant – Receiving the yant (Thai tattoo)
Sunday, May 23rd, 2010Sak Yant (tattoo) by Archarn Anek. This is “old school” Thai Tattoo work. When you hear about bamboo tattoo, this is it. The yant is a tattoo with meaning, as opposed to decorative. For more information on yant, go to www.sak-yant.com. update: Ajarn has his own site now. www.poodumtattoo.com I found the experience quite enlightening. The process was well within my pain tolerance and it went smoothly. I had done my homework prior to going and had an idea of what to expect. I share with you this abbreviated video to give you an idea of what the experience is like. I haven’t seen anything with this level of detail so far, so I hope that someone can find it to be useful. -peace- update & clarification: I consider this process to be old school Thai, in the sense that it is old school relative to Thai tattoo and certainly compared to machine tattoo. However, the roots of Sak Yant go back much further to ancient Khmer and (I’m sorry I was not clear about this) the letter is Khom and the Katha are in Pali. Music: fortuneangel.com
