personSaya Chein
Fifteen figures in a little over half an hour
about 1,870 – 1,890 · Working when Shway Yoe was writing
What it is
A Burmese tattooist named in passing in 1882 — the only working saya of the period this site can put a name to.
The long version
Shway Yoe: "I have had fifteen figures done in little over half an hour. But then Saya Chein is a celebrated man."
That is the whole of the record. A rate, a reputation, a name, and nothing else — no dates, no village, no line of teachers. Inference — set that beside the Chiang Mai operation that publishes seventeen masters with their teachers, their temples and their years in the robe, and the difference is not that one tradition kept records. It is that one of them is still alive to keep them.
Connected to
- Htoe kwin His work.
- Sak Yant Chiang Mai What a recorded lineage looks like when the tradition is still running.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | cited | The Burman: His Life and Notions — scanned by the Internet Archive | |
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
- The Burman: His Life and Notions — scanned by the Internet Archive
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