Sacred Skin: Thailand's Spirit Tattoos Flexibound – July 1, 2011

If you are interested in the spiritual side of Thailand, and in sacred tattoos, this book will make you happy. It explains the spiritual practice of Thai and Southeast Asian tattoos generally and covers those who give and get the sacred yantras. Great pictures, some history, some controversies, and all written in vibrant English prose. Personal stories of how the sacred tattoos influence the devotees, like the case of a young lady, fortified with a Sak Yant, who bit her sister's attacker, rendering him incapacitated.

Informative and shows many spectacular photographs of the San Yants and you really see how they flow one into another... so BEAUTIFUL!

Not alot of information on Sak yant just pictures and background story of people who got a Sak Yant. If your looking for detailed information this is not the book for you. If you are in to photography for tattoos its perfect.

Insightful with personal accounts on why the tattoos were chosen and written on their skin. And with more in in-depth look at the collective tattoos meanings. Great read.

I highly recommend this great book full of great photos and details about people wearing this great tattoos. Enjoy !

Took a long time but I got it

Nice! Thanks a lot.

While Sacred Skin has over 160 pages of photos they lack resolution; so it is not possible to (clearly) read the Khmer script contained in the Sak Yant. Sacred Skin only has a 20 page introduction and I would have liked to have seen a biography on each devotee's life plus their reasons for recieving tattos.There are a limited number of articles about sacred tattos but it is definately not worth spending your money on this book.*Correction to obvious mistranslation of sak yant as tattoo:Sak Yant is ANY geometric design that has religous significance.Sak Sit means sacred and Yant is from sanskrit yantra meaning line diagram.** You can find Ajarn Thoy Dabos from pages 33-37 at Wat Thong Nai in Bangkok.

C'est un très beau livre, dommage qu'il ne soit pas publié en françaisIl y a essentiellement des photos, et pas assez d'explication à mon gout par rapport au signification des dessins

Great product

If you are interesting in Thai tattoos so you shold buy this book it had a very good expainaton for individaul tattoos and meaning.

Il prodotto è esattamente quello che mi aspettavo. E' più che altro un book fotografico, di scritte c'è ne poche ma è come lo volevo.

Tom Vater hat es geschafft ein Buch zu machen mit dem er über eine der wichtigsten Säulen der thailändischen Kultur informiert, den Glauben. Es war für mich eine Freude zu sehen, dass er dies von der ersten bis zur letzten Seite mit dem größten Respekt getan hat. Respekt den Meistern gegenüber, die teilweise solche Yants bis zur völligen Erschöpfung stechen und den Trägern gegenüber die aus den unterschiedlichsten Beweggründen ein solches Tattoo tragen. Einige Träger solcher Yants wurden von Tom Vater zitiert und deren Aussagen einfach niedergeschrieben. Hochachtung dafür, denn der persönliche Grund warum jemand ein Yant auf seiner Haut hat sollte Information genug sein. Mann muss im Leben nicht immer alles hinterfragen.Die heiligen Tattoos in diesem Buch sind nicht einfach nur abfotografiert sondern wirklich wunderschön in Scene gesetzt. Damit ist der schwierige Spagat zwischen Kunst und Sachbuch meiner Meinung nach perfekt gelungen.