riteKhan tang
ขันตั้ง · khan tang
The teacher's bowl — the Lanna word, where the centre says khan khru
What it is
The fee, set by the master, presented in a bowl: flowers, candles, incense, cloth, coins, and whatever else that master's line asks for.
The long version
The Lanna volume gives the word and the mechanism in one line: the man goes to a community master expert in yant tattooing, and there is a teacher's fee, khan tang, as the master sets it.
Khan is the pedestalled bowl. Tang is to set up. The same word covers the offering that opens a course of study in any Lanna craft — which is the tell: the transaction is not a purchase, it is an enrolment. Central Thai calls the same thing khan khru.
A price list is a different object and it exists too; a Chiang Mai operation publishes one. This site keeps the two apart rather than translating one into the other.
Connected to
- Sak kha lai The tradition that names it this way.
- Sak yant And the living one that still collects it.
Named here by
- Sak kha lai The fee, in the Lanna word for it.
- Sak yant The fee, north and centre.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | cited | อภิมหามนต์คาถา (Supreme Maha Mantra Katha), pp. 19–21 — held and digitised in the wichaa.net manuscript corpus, item 6968 | |
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
- อภิมหามนต์คาถา (Supreme Maha Mantra Katha), pp. 19–21 — held and digitised in the wichaa.net manuscript corpus, item 6968
- Sak Yant Chiang Mai — the masters' profiles — sakyantchiangmai.com
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