{"id":32163,"date":"2023-03-26T13:25:34","date_gmt":"2023-03-26T13:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/03\/26\/the-sacred-tattoos-inked-by-thai-monks\/"},"modified":"2023-03-26T13:25:34","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T13:25:34","slug":"the-sacred-tattoos-inked-by-thai-monks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=32163","title":{"rendered":"The sacred tattoos inked by Thai monks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">For hundreds of years, men have been visiting this Thai Budhhist temple famous for its tattoo culture. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Monks use fine point needles to ink sacred tattoos or &#8216;sak yant&#8217; by hand on to the devotees&#8217; bodies. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">They say the tattoos are a &#8220;spiritual anchor&#8221;, drawn from Buddhist manuscripts in Khmer, Thai and Sanskrit. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Devotees opt for them seeking good forunute or protection. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Video by Danny Bull.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-65048258?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] For hundreds of years, men have been visiting this Thai Budhhist temple famous for its tattoo culture. Monks use fine point needles to ink sacred tattoos or &#8216;sak yant&#8217; &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}