Discover the ancient tattoo practice born during the Khmer Empire to gain protection, good luck and mystical powers: Sak Yant. Sak Yant is a form of tattoing th

Sacred tattoos, called 'sak yant' in Thailand, have been around Southeast Asia for centuries and afford protection from accident, misfortune, and crime. Young w

Tsem Rinpoche lived a fascinating and extraordinary life that took him, bizarrely, from Taiwan to New Jersey, then on to Los Angeles, India, and Malaysia. At ti

This design is said to protect you during travel. The eight points of the sun symbolize the eight directions of the universe (or what I would call the eight car

For hundreds of years, Thai Buddhist monks, using magical incantations and spells, have been covering people's bodies with indelible ink marks in the belief tha