personAjarn Dang and Ajarn Sak
อาจารย์แดง และ อาจารย์เสก
Two working masters in Chiang Mai
What it is
Two of the Chiang Mai masters whose published profiles give a teacher, a temple, and a count of years in and out of the robe.
The long version
Ajarn Dang: thirty-three years of practice, ten of them as a monk, a fifth-generation family line, trained under Sukhawaphuthargo. Ajarn Sak: eighteen years, twelve as a monk, a line through his father and grandfather, Burmese magic and the northern Tai Yai forest tradition.
That second line matters for this site's argument. A working Chiang Mai master describes his own training as Burmese and Tai Yai — which is the same border-crossing Shway Yoe described from the other side in 1882, when he wrote that the men who tattooed charms were mostly Shans.
Notes
Both tattooed this site's publisher. The pictures here that come from those sessions are used with permission and credited as such.
Connected to
- Sak yant The practice.
- Shan leg tattooing The line they name.
- Sak Yant Chiang Mai Where the profiles are published.
Named here by
- Sak Yant Chiang Mai Two of the masters.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | cited | Sak Yant Chiang Mai — the masters' profiles — sakyantchiangmai.com | |
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
- Sak Yant Chiang Mai — the masters' profiles — sakyantchiangmai.com
- Two sessions at Sak Yant Chiang Mai — this project's own photographs
cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there