Noo later started his own tattoo samnak, or institute, a two-story shrine sitting 20 miles outside Bangkok. “What you see nowadays from my sak yant art comes from my own ideas and designs that I ...

For those ready to navigate the cultural minefield of getting a sacred tattoo, a few specific designs account for the bulk of the sak yant received by foreigners, with the Gao Yord (Nine Pillars ...

Spiritual, or sak yant tattoos, originated in India ... full of mantra all the time,” he said. He closed his design business and eventually opened a tattoo studio of his own.

“When we apply a tattoo, we begin to ink the words and start reciting ... He said that the mixture of styles between Sak Yant tattoos and foreign designs remains a murky subject and it can be ...

It involves sacred geometrical designs, with special meanings ... He says: 'Because you travel around the world with a Sak Yant Tattoo, obviously people are going to be wondering why and through ...

Ajarn Noo, a former Buddhist monk turned spiritual Thai tattoo master, has gained international recognition since tattooing Angelina Jolie and consequently many other celebrities like Michele ...

About 30 minutes outside of Bangkok is the Wat Bangphra Buddhist temple, famous for the daily tattoos, known as 'Sak Yants,' given ... to complete the detailed designs, inked on visitors' chests ...

Maggie Wilson got herself inked in Thailand with a five-line Sak Yant tattoo, a sacred hand-poked tattoo which is said to offer protection from bad fortune and unwanted spirits. Wilson gave a ...

A tattoo artist who told his customers his work ... was a celebrated local practitioner of sak yant, a Southeast Asian custom that ascribes spiritual power to body art. “He has many disciples ...