{
 "schema": 1,
 "id": "sak-yant-chiang-mai",
 "type": "org",
 "names": {
  "name": "Sak Yant Chiang Mai",
  "th": "สักยันต์เชียงใหม่",
  "said": "A booking service, by its own description, with a published lineage"
 },
 "region": [
  "lanna"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "kind": "studio"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "The Chiang Mai operation that publishes the profile of every master it works with — teacher, temple, family line, years in the robe and out.",
  "story": "Seventeen practitioners, twelve *ajarn* and five monks; thirty teacher links; twelve named temples; family lines to the third, fourth and fifth generation.\n\n*Inference —* that is a lineage map for a living hand tradition, published by the people in it, and there is nothing else like it on this site. Every other lineage here was reconstructed by an outsider after the fact, or lost.\n\nIt describes itself as a booking service rather than a *samnak*, a master's house, and this site repeats its own description rather than upgrading it."
 },
 "text_th": {
  "what": "สำนักงานในเชียงใหม่ที่เผยแพร่ประวัติของครูทุกคนที่ร่วมงาน ทั้งครูผู้สอน วัด สายตระกูล และจำนวนปีทั้งในและนอกผ้าเหลือง"
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "ajarn-dang-sak",
   "as": "Two of the masters.",
   "rel": "person"
  },
  {
   "to": "sak-yant",
   "as": "The tradition.",
   "rel": "tradition"
  }
 ],
 "links": [
  {
   "label": "sakyantchiangmai.com",
   "url": "https://sakyantchiangmai.com/"
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:sycm"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:sycm"
  },
  "fields": {
   "text_th": {
    "tier": "inference",
    "note": "written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "high",
 "tags": [
  "lanna",
  "start-here"
 ],
 "updated": "2026-09-19",
 "images": [
  {
   "file": "sak-yant-chiang-mai/sak-yant-chiang-mai-thai-tattoo-chiang-mai-2005-058.jpg",
   "source": "commons",
   "title": "File:Thai tattoo Chiang Mai 2005 058.jpg",
   "url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/Thai_tattoo_Chiang_Mai_2005_058.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=original",
   "page_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AThai_tattoo_Chiang_Mai_2005_058.jpg",
   "license": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
   "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/",
   "author": "YashiWong",
   "credit": "Own work",
   "alt": "Thai tattoos. Chiang Mai 2005",
   "date": "",
   "primary": true,
   "sha256": "22f800ac8738d273a0864babb7234f0acfd9a2a715f924acd131d79578da390b"
  }
 ],
 "kin_in": [
  {
   "from": "sak-yant",
   "type": "tradition",
   "name": "Sak yant",
   "as": "The published lineage."
  },
  {
   "from": "ajarn-dang-sak",
   "type": "person",
   "name": "Ajarn Dang and Ajarn Sak",
   "as": "Where the profiles are published."
  },
  {
   "from": "saya-chein",
   "type": "person",
   "name": "Saya Chein",
   "as": "What a recorded lineage looks like when the tradition is still running."
  }
 ]
}