Saturday, June 7, 2008

Titles of monk in Thailand

I realise that a lot of people still confused about the titles of monks in thailand. Today, i shall share about information about it, hopefully can clear the doubt of devotes.

Senior monks, Abbot - Luang Pho (Pho/Por = father)
Junior monks - Luang Pee (Pee/ Phi = older brother)
Elderly monk - Luang Puu (Puu/ Phu = paternal grandfather)
Some monks also have the title of Ajarn (a very respectful title for a teacher)

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Friday, May 30, 2008

Enpowerment

There are many ways where get blessing from masters. Today, i will introduce one of the unique and rare methods which are being used.
Below is the article which describe the the method which i am introducing:

There is a popular display now on a seven-year world tour -- a display of relics, physical remains, it is said, of the Buddha and other great Buddhist teachers. The tradition is that when a spiritually pure Buddhist master is cremated, his remains can include not only bone fragments but tiny pearl-like beads, called ringsel, which are believed to emit spiritual power and even to multiply. In Washington, we talked about these mysteries with Victoria Ewart, the manager of the Heart Shrine Relic Tour.


(The Heart Shrine Relic Tour): These relics have come from masters around the world, starting with the Buddha and other Buddhist practitioners after his time. And the relics are produced because the master has spiritual realizations. So when the body is cremated, then these ringsel -- relics -- are found among the ashes.



So this means that when the Buddha was cremated two and a half thousand years ago, these relics were left behind. So they're not pieces of bones. They're actually manifestations of the realizations of the Buddha and other masters. And the idea is that, when you come into contact with these ringsel, you automatically create happiness, or virtue, because of the power of the holy object


The ringsel multiply, given the right conditions. You can see from the photograph, which was taken in June 2001. And a month later, I looked inside the container, and I saw that there were three very small new relics there. So that means it's an interactive process.

So often people say to me, "How do you know that these relics are real? You know, how can you tell these come from the Buddha?" And the answer is that we don't. But we do have a tradition of these relics being passed down from master to student. And we ask the master in the temple -- whether he's Vietnamese, Chinese, Tibetan, whatever -- we ask him or her to bless each person that wishes to receive a blessing. They come forward, they make a bow, and then they receive the blessing.

He will place the relics on top of the crown of your head. And the reason that he does that is there is actually a physical energetic effect of being blessed on top of the head. It is said to be a healing or a purification of your own body.





The purpose of the Heart Shrine Relic Tour is to bring people into their heart. So by coming into contact with the relics, we are inspired to feel the quality of lovingkindness. Even people who aren't Buddhists, they cry or they have moving experiences or they have a vision. Regardless of any labels of "Buddhism" or "Buddha," people are responding all over.

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Thursday, May 22, 2008

Ghost and spirits in thailand

spirits and ghosts live almost everywhere in Thailand. Most large trees are said to have a ghost or spirit living inside of it and old trees are held in particular respect. The favourite place for female ghosts to live is in a banana grove. There are many species of banana plants in Thailand, but a 'tani' banana grove is the preferred haunting place.

Seen and unseen forces operate in daily Thai life. Flowers, incense, or food is placed in front of shops, on the bows of boats, in front of buddhist icons and spirit houses. Brightly-coloured ribbon is wrapped around trees or other objects. These are all offerings to the spirits that reside there. A cement pole near my house receives many gifts. There have been too many accidents at this pole and local residents are trying to placate its bad spirit. Keep your eyes open for these offerings when in Thailand and you will be amazed at how many you see.

When I told my Thai girlfriend at work I was writing about ghost and spirits she exclaimed, "Oh! Even when you just say the word 'ghost' the hair on my arm stands straight up! Look!" Indeed, every hair on her arm was in the vertical position.
















Most Thais wear one amulet or more. Amulets are medallions that both men and women wear around their necks and which they believe will protect them from harm or provide them with other forms of assistance. A monk might tell you that the amulet is worn only as a reminder of
buddha Teachings, not for protection Different amulets have different powers. Some help the wearer attract women while others offer protection against weapons. All amulets offer well-being to the wearer and help keep bad spirits away. Most amulets are given away at temples but there are some amulets which, for a variety of reasons, become very expensive over time. The reasons for this can range from simple popularity to the belief that certain amulets have very strong powers.

There are many tattooed men. Tattoos are often religious passages or religious symbols that offer protection to the wearer. The more superstitious the person, the more tattoos they are apt to have. The properties of tattoos are believed to be similar to those of amulets in the sense that they can offer protection from harm and can been seen as attractive. Tattoos have more recently become modern fashion for some of the men and women who wear them.

'Yan' is the drawing of religious mystical symbols to protect the area from ghosts and bad spirits. Most automobiles, taxis, and busses are adorned with 'yan' and amulets to ensure safe trips. 'Yan' is also painted on the doors of houses to keep unwanted and unseen visitors outside.

Antiques are something that foreigners constantly seek out in Thailand. I have discovered that very often, Thai people absolutely do not want to possess objects that belong to a deceased person for fear of having the previous owner's ghost attached to the object. "Oh! Look at that beautiful desk! It would look wonderful in my living room!" my friend exclaimed at an antique shop to her Thai companion. "I would never buy that," he answered. "I would think of the person who had to work at that desk everyday. I would wonder if they were happy then and if they are happy now."


Asking around about ghosts provided the stories that follow.

Puthamonton is a town famous for its haunted bamboo grove. This bamboo grove is on the grounds of the Buddha Park so many monks reside and meditate there. Recently a novice monk became possessed by a ghost and was exorcised by other monks. Reports in Thai newspapers make this common knowledge to most people.

Supanburi is the home to a famous Thai country music singer Phum Phuang who died about eight years ago. When the villagers saw her ghost walking around they decided to build a shrine for her. This shrine now draws hundreds of people who try to receive winning lottery numbers from the deceased.

A cup filled with bamboo sticks with numbers written on them is shaken until a lucky stick falls to the ground. As the Thai national lottery occurs on the 1st and 16th of every month, this shrine is quite active in the days before the drawing. Pictures of this event were recently on the front page of a local Thai newspaper.

Fortune-tellers, mediums, and psychics get a lot of business in Thailand. They are not only consulted for winning lottery numbers, but also auspicious dates on which to conduct an event, or for advice in general life and love decisions.


A young couple who lived north of Ayutthaya recently committed suicide by hanging themselves. The woman was six months pregnant. A letter from the wife requested that the couple be cremated together. When the family tried to arrange this, two local temples refused to do so. Everyone was terrified that the couple would rise from the dead. They feared it was the ghost of Naan Naak returning again. A surgeon was called in and the baby was removed from the mother before the cremation could take place.




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Saturday, May 17, 2008

The benefit of having a calm mind

Many people go for medication when they are undergo stress or go for drugs when they are done. They backstab each other at work and doing illegal stuff to get rich. If you have been reading my blog, i always like to introduce good and effective methods and ways to improve life. Amulets are 1 of them. Today, i am going to introduce another method which will bring much benefit to you, as the same, great genuine and powerful amulets bring to mankind. I always like to show REAL example on how the methods i am suggesting to people are genuine effective. Now, without fail again, i will show real story on how this method, which i am introducing today, on how much this method benefit this person.
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The powerful and effective which will benefit us in our life is meditation.
what!!! People will ask, are you sure meditation will help us in life????
Well, maybe you would like to read up the real life story below:

Tiger Woods on being a dad and Buddhism


Los Angeles, USA -- Golf is famed as a frustrating sport but world number one Tiger Woods has found striking the right balance between family and work to be every bit as challenging.


"It is frustrating," Woods told Reuters in an interview.



"This morning Sam was crying when I left. That is only going to get harder, especially when they start talking, when they get in school," he said, adding that golfers find it particularly tough to carry out their roles as fathers.

"A lot of guys, early on in their child's development, try to take them on the road with them so they can be a part of that development - but once they are in school it is a whole different story then," he said.

While winning seven tournaments in succession through a six-month unbeaten streak, Woods has also been changing his daily routine to allow him the maximum possible time with his daughter Sam and Swedish wife Elin.

"I try and get my workouts in before Sam or Elin gets up, I go to the gym really early in the morning and get my lifting in and get my cardio done and come back and have breakfast with them.

"Then maybe a little walk and then right when Sam takes a nap I can go out and practice. I don't want to miss anything, she changes every day," he says.

Woods relishes talking about his daughter but confesses he has been surprised by fatherhood.

"I never thought that I would feel this way. You hear parents say it all the time, but you really don't know until you actually go through it," he said.

"I can't imagine missing anything. When we go on the road we have Skype so I will talk to her and see her and...I don't know how guys did it in the past, technology certainly helps."

The challenge of organising his life, which also includes commercial commitments to sponsors such as Gillette, hasn't weakened his desire for a larger family.

"I want to be around as much as I can at home and especially since we are going to have more kids it is going to be even more difficult down the road," he says.

Missing from Woods's description of his daily routine is meditation - learnt from his Buddhist mother and one element of a religion that shapes much of his attitude to life.

"I practice meditation - that is something that I do, that my mum taught me over the years. We also have a thing we do every year, where we go to temple together," he said.

"In the Buddhist religion you have to work for it yourself, internally, in order to achieve anything in life and set up the next life. It is all about what you do and you get out of it what you put into it.

"So you are going to have to work your butt off in every aspect of your life.

"That is one of the things that people see in what I do on the golf course but that is just one small facet of my life - I am always continuing to work," said Woods who credits his late father Earl and Thai mother Kultida for his winning combination of aggression and control.

"If you look at my parents - my Dad was a former special forces, he was a pretty tough guy, very focused but I have to say the more competitive one was my mum," he added.

"You start talking to her and you will see where I get my fire and passion from - it is from my mum - I get my calmness from my Dad," he said.

There are no signs that his mother is about to let that passion cool - Woods said she remains animated when watching him play.

"She still lives and dies over every shot. I just say 'Mum, relax, I know what I am doing.' She says to me - 'you'll know what I am talking about when Sam gets older'"


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Friday, May 9, 2008

feedback and QNA

Well, i have been selling amulets for some time. Those who know deal with me once my genuine of my amulets, beside that, have also help many people to bring light and happiness to their life.
Below is a true email from 1 of my friends.


I wanted to give you feedback about the Cat and Mouse Takrut I bought from you about one month ago. I can see the positive effects very clearly. For example firstly people at work generally woman behave positively even my boss and other people as well. Another example...children especially ...for some reason...seem to like me even more..the other day when when I was walking in a shopping centre a 2 or 3 year old baby girl kept smiling at me and for no reason and kept pulling her mother towards me over and over again. Even my ...girl friends nephew..behaves differently to me with full of l to me with full of love, I was suprised... strangers who I have never met before even feel comfortable talking to me. For me the 'metta' level is very obvious and transcends not only to female and male relationship but to everyone that I come in contact with. Thank You for selling this amulet, you have helped my life.
I also need to ask you for your advice, this is a very personal thing to me and also very sad....but I need to ask someone for help. You see my girlfriend and I are planning to get married in the next two years or so but about two years back we were very difficult financially and she got pregnant...we were not in the positiion to have the baby so we aborted. It was not even 1 month so the embryo was not even formed yet...but my concern is what about the spirit? Is there something that we should do to send the spirit off properly? Please advice if you can... Thank you

Below is the reply:

sure.
Do this chanting: Om Mani Pad Me Hung everynight. min 108 times.
After which, say: may this merit be share with all sentient being in this universal, may them be well and happy.
Lastly, pray that your baby also get this merits too... and pray that he/she will reborn to higher realm...
if got chance, do a lot of good deeds, after which, say those words: may this merit be share with all sentient being in this universal, may them be well and happy.
Lastly, pray that your baby also get this merits too... and pray that he/she will reborn to higher realm...
Good Luck.

How much can he help?

It true, there should not be excuse for any such sin, but most importantly, THE PERSON MUST ADMIT THAT HE/SHE IS IN wrong and repent. STOP DOING ALL THESE HURTFUL ACTION WHICH CAUSE HURTS!!!
Start pray everyday, repent and start to help people.


Beside selling amulets to people, i can also help them in spiritual and their life.
Well, people will ask? Is this amulet that powerful? i will reply. you try using it for without doing any good deeds and keep on CHEAP GIRLS TO BED!!! you will see what you get from your KARMA!!!!

The other good thing is that i have help many person who WERE single last time to attract opp sex and get good partner for their life. i always tell them that you have manage to get the help with the power of amulets through the compassion of many master, so do not misuse it. TREAT him or her well.

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Sunday, May 4, 2008

black magic practise in western countries?????

i have find this very interesting articles in the news. Human skulls are being import to western countries!!!!! Usually, in Asia like Cambodia or Thailand, these skull are being search by person (master) to do magic. Well, look like (personal view) there are some master who practise in western countries too....


below i will show some photo of skull used by master in Thailand...













The Customs and Excise Office at the Soekarno-Hatta International Airport said Thursday it had confiscated three human skulls smuggled through delivery packages from Denpasar to the United Kingdom."The skulls were sent by three different people identified as KP, YP and TK to the same receiver identified as MS in the UK," Eko Darmanto, chief of intelligence at the Customs Office saidEko said the skulls, reported as wood carving and wrapped in boxes, were sent through an express mail service on April 12, 17 and 22 respectively."The skulls are not archeological objects, but human skull delivery is banned and we will hand them to the police for further investigation," he said. -The Jakarta Post, ANN

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Saturday, April 26, 2008

New home for Buddha statute make of gold






BANGKOK, Thailand
-- It's a ho-hum temple in the midst of Chinatown, one of the most popular draws for tourists visiting Thailand's bustling capital city, and many visitors walk straight past it. Yet the temple contains one of the city's most beautiful attractions – a maginficent golden Buddha worth about $14 million. he story goes like this: Sometime in the late 1700s, a large number of Buddha images were brought to Bangkok from the provinces of the newly united kingdom of Siam. One – a dirty plaster Buddha statue about three metres tall – ended up in a seldom-visited temple near the Chao Phraya River.

It was largely ignored until the temple was abandoned nearly 130 years later, and the statue moved to its current spot.

One day in 1955, as it was being moved, the statue slipped from its ropes and crashed to the ground, cracking the plaster.

Horrified workers noticed a brilliant yellow glow from inside and realized that it was gold — 5 1/2 tons of it.

Scholars have dated the image – now stripped of its plaster covering – to the 12th or 13th century, and believe that it was disguised to hide it from invading Burmese armies and eventually forgotten.

Foreigners can barely pronounce its full name – Phra Buddha Maha Suwan Patimakorn – so most people simply call it `The Golden Buddha.'

Long housed in a small, dusty chapel with room for maybe a dozen kneeling worshippers, the image is set to move later this year into a purpose-built temple that will tower over the old one. The project has been in the works for a while.

"Historic or religious sites in Thailand are registered as national treasures by the Fine Arts Department," said a project spokesperson. "Even small modifications are prohibited without a lengthy assessment process, which is why it's taken such a long time for the temple to get an upgrade."

The 600-million baht ($18.7 million Cdn.) brick-and-marble hall will be 60 metres tall with ornate flourishes particular to Thai architectural design. It will be topped with a seven-tiered metal chatra (a ceremonial umbrella-type structure which represents either enlightenment, royalty or nothing at all, depending on whom you ask). The statue of Buddha will be housed on the fourth and top floor, while the rest will be used for religious activities, a community museum and parking.

Many guidebooks, websites and Bangkok's infamous taxi and tuk-tuk drivers say that the statue is made of solid gold, and the Guinness Book of World Records certifies it as `The World's Largest Gold Buddha." But the truth is a bit less fantastic.


"Well, it's true the image is undeniably stunning," says the project spokesman, "but the only part of it that is truly 100 per cent gold is the flame-like halo on top of the Buddha's head.

However, the body was cast in an alloy with a very high gold percentage, as pure gold is too malleable even for jewellery – a large, heavy statue like this would be out of the question."

The glittering image is a remarkable sight, with its narrow eyes staring down on you. Its slender waist, long earlobes and slightly protruding belly button are all hallmarks of the Sukhothai style, widely considered to be the most graceful and refined example of Thai art and sculpture.

The statue sits in the "subduing the Mara" posture – cross-legged, left hand palm-up on lap, the fingers of the right hand lightly brushing the ground. This posture represents steadfastness, loyalty and enlightenment.

Fittingly, the temple built to house one of Thailand's most revered icons will open on the same day that the country celebrates their most revered leader – Dec. 5, 2008 will mark the 81st birthday of Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej.

Celebrations will be large and memorable – just like the new temple.


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Saturday, April 19, 2008

GIRL OR BOY???

recently, i am doing research on Chinese metaphysics.... that why i been posting articles about that... i receive a lot of reponse from my last posting... so u i will continue to share more...


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You can now do family-planning with a little assistance from the wisdom of Chinese ancients.

According to a newspaper report, there exists a graph which can predict when couples will increase their chances of bearing a baby boy or girl. The predictions are made based on the age at which a woman conceives and the month in which the baby is conceived.





The would-be mother's Chinese lunar birth year should correspond to a particular Chinese lunar month in which the baby is conceived in order to determine the baby's gender. A person's lunar birth date is always one year older than his or her age according to the Gregorian calendar that is used today, whilst the lunar month can be consulted from a Chinese lunar year calender.

One Madam Lim, who provided the chart to the newspaper, told the paper: "My friend followed the chart, and bore a baby boy when she conceived at the lunar age of 30 during the first lunar month."

The chart had been discovered in the tomb of a Chinese royalty in Beijing, China, and dates back to at least 700 years ago, and has been re-drawn by Chinese scientists.

Results are said to be 99 per cent accurate.




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Saturday, April 12, 2008

lust or love


Face Reading has its roots dating back centuries. It allows a person to tell the fate or destiny of a person simply by the various features on their face. Specific traits like the distance between the eyes, the shape of the nose, the curve of the eye brow or even a scar may indicate certain events that may transpire at some point in the future.


Let me tell quote some article on how to see true love or lust?



The image shows a pair of computerised "averaged" facial photographs taken from real people's pictures. According to the research, the face on the right is of someone who is more likely to be interested in a short-term sexual relationship whilst the one on the left is more likely to be interested in a long-term relationship.


Members of the opposite sex can spot whether somebody is after a one-night stand or something more permanent just by looking at their face, scientists said on Wednesday.

On men, a square jaw, large nose and small eyes are more likely to betray the look of lust than of love.

Women found men with softer features more likely to opt for commitment.

But the Durham University-led research found that while men can judge whether a woman is footloose-and-fancy-free or not, there is no common facial detail to explain it.

about 700 heterosexuals took part in the survey carried out by Durham, St. Andrews and Aberdeen universities.

In one study, 72 percent of the 153 participants correctly identified the sexual attitudes of a group of men and women in their 20s after being shown photographs or facial images.

Published in the journal "Evolution and Human Behaviour", the research also showed that women who were open to short-term sexual relationships were usually seen as more attractive.

They tended to have wide eyes and large lips, such as the actress Angelina Jolie.

Women were usually interested in men who appeared to be more likely to want a long-term relationship.

The research tended to confirm earlier findings which found that women see masculine men as more likely to be unfaithful and worse at parenting.

The men and women also tended to opt for complete opposites.


"These will then give way over time to more in-depth knowledge of that person as you get to know them better, and may change with age."


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Friday, April 4, 2008

thailand temple




As the Thai New Year approaches next month, Buddhist monks like Phramaha Somgid from Wat Ratchabophit, a temple near Bangkok's Grand Palace, can't be busier.

There are paths to sweep, pavilions to polish, incense to purchase and the daily rhythm of alms-seeking, prayer and sutra study to keep up.

The lead up to the New Year celebrations from April 13 to 15 also sees Thais making their way around Bangkok's more than 880 Buddhist temples, called wats, to pray for good fortune.

The “magic nine" temples

WAT SUTHAT

For strong eyesight

WAT CHANA SONGKHRAM

For the power to overcome obstacles

WAT ARUN

For prosperity

CITY PILLAR SHRINE

To dispel bad luck and attract

good fortune

WAT KANLAYANAMIT

For safe travel

WAT RAKHANG

To gain friends and become popular

WAT PHRA KAEO

To attract wealth and prosperity

WAT PHO

To be happy and live in peace

CHAO PHON SUA CHINESE TEMPLE

To gain strength and bravery

Especially busy are the nine so-called "magic" ones that are said to bestow unique powers to win friends, get rich, be brave and so on. The monk Somgid explains that nine is an auspicious number for Buddhists and its sound is similar to the Thai word for progress.

Devotees say it's most effective to visit all the nine wats in a single day, although even visiting only one or two can bring good fortune too.

A short taxi ride from Wat Ratchabophit to the east bank of Chao Praya River brings me to Wat Phrachetuphon Wimonmangkhalaram, or "Wat Pho" .

Thais believe that paying respects at its altar can bring happiness and the promise of a peaceful life. Many tourists go there to see the 46m gilded reclining Buddha. It is often crowded at the statue's enormous feet, which is inlaid with mother-of-pearl and bears the inscriptions of the 108 auspicious characteristics of Buddha.

Next, I made for the Wat Phra Kaeo, located in the outer west section of the nearby Grand Palace. Known as the Temple of the Emerald Buddha, the stone statue is Thailand's most sacred Buddha image. The Thais believe that it bestows wealth and prosperity on those who worship it.

A short ferry ride across the Chao Praya from the Grand Palace is Wat Arun, the Temple of Dawn. Though a much older temple, it too is said to have the power to grant prosperity.

A short time later, I find myself passing through the ornate wooden entrance doors of Wat Suthat, situated near the city's centre. I have an appointment at the altar with the "god of good vision" inside its high-roofed Burmese-style wihara or central pavilion.

I leave the wat with an enlivened sense of smell, thanks to pots of powerful vegetable curry which the resident kitchen staff have been busily stewing for a ceremonial feast that evening.

Nearest to Wat Suthat is the formidable Wat Saket, perched on top of the Golden Mountain, with its towering trumpet-like pagoda visible from almost any point in central Bangkok.






Having somehow lost my map of "magic" temples and not keen to push my luck in the congested traffic, I decided to forgo the next "magic" wat, follow my own mantra that "fortune favours the brave", and headed for the Golden Mountain, an artificial hill on which successive Thai kings have built a place of worship over the centuries.

The most recent was King Rama V, who constructed the present pagoda and installed a precious relic - reputedly a piece of Buddha's collarbone - inside it.

Every day, some 2,000 sightseers struggle up the Golden Mountain to Wat Saket to catch the 360-degree panoramic view of the city from its concourse - except during the wet season in August.

Says Saket's monk-turned-caretaker Assajita Awale: "We don't allow tourists up onto the concourse during electrical storms. Even with our lightning rod installed, no amount of good fortune can protect you from a wayward thunderbolt."

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Monday, March 31, 2008

A VERY BEAUTIFUL VERSES

A New Day:

This is the beginning of a new day.
I have been give this day to use as I will.
I can waste it or use it for good.
What I do today is very important
because I'm exchanging a day of my life for it.

When tomorrow comes,
today will be gone forever,
leaving in its place whatever I have traded for it.

I pledge to myself that it shall be gain, not loss;
good, not evil; success, not failure.

In order that I shall not regret the price I paid for this day.

Author - unknown

Sunday, March 30, 2008

would you buy a buddha statue for $14.3????

would you buy a buddha statue for $14.3????
some people will think it is crazy, some people will think it is not...

Look at the article below:


Smiles were all around when Christie's recently sold a Japanese Buddha statue for $14.3 million, a price nearly 10 times the original estimate and a new world record for Japanese art sold at auction. The buyer was Shinnyo-en Temple, located in the suburbs of Tokyo.

This Buddha statue, created in the 12th century by Japanese sculptor
Unkei was auctioned for US$ 14.3 million

According to reports, the Buddhist temple's primary motivation was to keep the statue out of foreign hands. Said one auction insider of the selling price, "Buddha himself [would] have been surprised by this."


The statue, created in the 12th century and attributed to the Japanese sculptor Unkei, is a recent discovery, and scholars are only now beginning to trace its long history. During the 19th century, it is thought to have been owned by another Buddhist temple, but it mysteriously disappeared when the Japanese government enforced a widespread anti-Buddhist movement in a bid to unite Japan under its native religion, Shinto.

The full story is incomplete, but it is believed the Buddha statue eventually found its way to a Japanese antique shop where a buyer picked it up for an undisclosed sum. Suspecting that it was hollow inside because of its unusually light weight, the astute buyer had the piece X-rayed by the Tokyo National Museum. In the belly of the Buddha, three ceremonial objects were discovered. They had been sealed inside the torso for over 800 years.

Unkei was one of the great carvers of the early Kamakura period. Made of cyprus wood, the Buddha sits in a lotus position, with hair pulled up into a tight chignon, and wears royal dress and jewelry. The deity forms a distinctive hand gesture known as the "knowledge fist," one of many Buddhist ritual poses or "mudras." Buddhas carved during the early Kamakura period are considered among the finest Buddhist art in existence.

Artfact Analysis

Like many countries, Japan is fiercely protective of its artistic assets and has designated 12 works made or believed to have been made by Unkei as national treasures. The Christie's piece was not on the list and therefore eligible for exportation. Before the auction, there was reportedly a petition campaign in Japan to keep the piece at home out of fear that it would lead to an outflow of other national treasures.

The campaign was apparently unsuccessful, but there was enough press on the subject to stir supporters into raising money to bid at Christie's. Had the Buddhist temple not stepped up to buy the piece, it would have gone to the under-bidder, an American collector.

The record price "is a testament to the extreme importance and beauty of this supreme Buddha, and elevates Japanese art to a new record level," said Katsura Yamaguchi, Christie's director of Japanese and Korean Art.

It is very unusual for a piece of this importance to suddenly resurface on the market. The previous record for a Japanese work of art was $1.76 million for a Rakuchu Rakugai screen, sold at Christie's in 1990. Over the past few years, sales of Asian art in New York have led to nice returns for the auction houses, with Sotheby's and Christie's selling $129.4 million worth of Asian art last year, up from $97.9 million in 2006.

To put this $14 million price into perspective, Sotheby's recently sold a tiny, ancient Mesopotamian sculpture for $57 million, setting a record for any sculpture or antiquity at auction.

What: Wood sculpture of Dainichi Nyorai
Kamakura Period, Attributed to Unkei (died 1223)
26 inches high

Where: Christie's New York
Japanese and Korean Art
March 18, 2008

How Much: Pre-Sale Estimate: $1.5 million to $2 million
Final Selling Price: $14, 377,000


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Thursday, March 27, 2008

House make of skull????















I has came by a very interesting article.

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The grounds of the 260-year-old Hua Krabeu temple on the outskirts of Bangkok look like a place where water buffalo go to die.

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Beneath simple tarmac shelters, thousands of water buffalo skulls are stacked in piles that tower over two metres (six feet) high, a grim homage to an animal that was once an iconic part of Thailand's landscape.

The abbot of the Buddhist temple, Phra Khru Wiboonpattankit, has been collecting the skulls for more than 35 years. He hopes eventually to have enough to build a three-storey tower that will house a memorial to the beast.

nside the mountain of skulls, which he says will stand at the end of a path also decorated with buffalo heads, will be a cave housing an image of the Buddha.

When the abbot first moved to the temple 35 years ago, he found villagers had left 10 skulls at the grounds in remembrance of their dead buffalo.

As he developed the idea for his memorial, he began encouraging other villagers to donate skulls when their buffalo died. He slowly amassed a collection of 1,000 skulls, which was nowhere near enough to build his shrine.

So he a few years ago he began asking for cash donations to buy skulls from slaughterhouses.

He now has 8,000, including one prized piece whose head and horns are perfectly symmetrical and undamaged, which cost him 3,500 baht (about 100 dollars).

Although Thais relied for centuries on water buffalo to plow their rice paddies, provide transportation and even defend villages during war, now the animals are falling from favour.

Over the past decade, farming has become mechanised, reducing the need for the animals' labour. In many rural areas, water buffalo are now prized as a delicacy more than a beast of burden.

"Kwai," the Thai word for water buffalo, is synonymous with "stupid," and for many people it is a reminder of a not-too-distant, less developed past in a country that has modernised rapidly.

The abbot however sees things differently.

"These animals have proven to be useful from the day they are born until after they die. People who do not contribute to the society they live in should not be ashamed of the buffaloes," the 62-year-old monk told AFP.

As he walks past his collection of skulls, he says he wants them to remind people that the animals are slowly disappearing from Thailand.

The kingdom has about 1.3 million buffaloes, down from 4.7 million in 1990, according to Ancharlie na Chiang Mai, a senior researcher at the government's livestock department.

The number continues to drop because about 300,000 buffaloes are slaughtered each year for meat while only about 200,000 calves are born annually, she said.

The changes in Thailand are visible around the temple, whose name translates as "Temple of Buffalo Heads".

When Wiboonpattankit first arrived here 35 years ago, the temple was surrounded by rice paddies worked by buffalo.

Now the city has grown up around it, and there are more stores and cars than fields and animals.

The abbot has a penchant for collecting. He was investigated by Thailand's main Buddhist group for assembling a collection of more than 60 antique Mercedes Benz cars, which critics said violated his vows of poverty.

He said the cars had been donated so that the temple could run a training programme for young mechanics. Investigators believed him and his name was cleared.

His stash of skulls is still not enough to achieve his dream of using them to build a shrine to the buffalo, but he says the donations that he uses to buy in skulls is helping.

"They come in a pick-up truck," he said. "A pick-up carries about 30 to 40 heads at a time. A truckload costs about 10,000 baht (3,000 dollars)."

"I think I have the world's biggest collection of buffalo skulls," he said.

He still needs enormous contributions to finance the construction, but hopes that once it's complete, the shrine to buffalo will provoke some self-examination among visitors.

"Life is not meaningful if you do not make yourself useful to society," he said. "Don't be someone who others would be happy to see die."


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Thursday, March 20, 2008

White Magic

Definition - White Magic

White magic & Good spells is the use of Positive energies and Gifted supernatural powers by some Good and Holy people to help other's life and future that is already ruin by Black magic and evil spell. White magic is not dangerous yet it is a good ones that it is able to cured someone by Evil spells and Black magic.


Behavior

A person who has White magic usually have a different ways of thinking to many things. Anybody can have White magic, it can be a kid, a sweet looking girl or a lady even an old man and those who has White magic not only found in Holy places, he can go anywhere he wants to.
A White magic holders is not rich or poor but just average type of living, they just want to keep it simple and clean to themselves yet they have excellent knowledge bout the religion.

They will only do the good thing with their good deeds and sincere with everything. He has no fear in Ghost and evil spirits because he also has a excellent knowledge bout Paranormal and Ghosts. Some of them is very good in Martial Arts to protect themselves in time of danger. This type of people who don't press their thoughts as the divine truths and only believe in God yet his behavior loves to give a helping hand to the needy ones.


How To Have White Magic

To be bad will be just in one seconds, to be good will take a very long time, it is as the same as Black and White magic, to learn Black magic will only take one day while learning White magic may take one generation. To those who has White magic, they begin doing good deeds since they were young and always trust in Karma and energy and always pray. This type of people they don't expect something in exchange by doing all the good things but to be sincere with everything.

One of the ways to practise white magic and heal people is reiki.

The practiser will sent energy or good thought to heal people.

Having White magic is not the reason that it is a pass on generation or the one who has it is a guardian form above. Some of this White wizard will only help his family member and will only help the suffering ones when it is really urgent, this is because they wanted to keep it themselves and they wanted to be low profile in everything.

The great thing of having White magic is that they are able to get rid of any kind of Dark forces such as Black magic, evil spells, Disturbance of unsettled sprits and many more of Dark forces bad deeds. A cleansing service usually conduct my someone who has very strong in White magic practices and good knowledge in good spells. A real gifted White wizard has everything such as third eye, ESP and many special ability that mighty God give. He will be able to sense where is cold and hot spot, whether the places has evil spirits or clean.

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This powerful Kar Sa Tong is specially made by Kruba Noi using one kind of special black wood.
Kruba noi blesssed this takrut with Special ancient mantra, magic incantation with intended deep meditation for 7 days.
This Takrut Kar Sa tong is well-known for it's great protection, prevent black magic prevent danger and against all bad negative energy.


Some miracles of Takrut Kar Sar tong, extracted from the newspaper and internet news reports.

Unable to Do needle injection
Mr.ThongKam JaiTon is 65 years old. He lives in Chiangmai province. He said that he went to see a doctor to check up his body. A doctor tried to put hypodermic syringe into his stomach.

But it was broken. A doctor tried many times but he can’t complete this process.
Mr.Thongkam recalled that he saw that he hanged takrut Kar sa tong of Kruba Noi. Then, he took it off. After that a doctor could put hypodermic syringe into his stomach.
Mr.Thongkam believed that this takrut is so powerful.
Source : KhaoSod newspaper 2 September 2007

Escape from bullets

One miracle about takrut kar sa tong happened on 19 September 2007.

Mr.Tavorn NaJak was 59 years old who was a member of SaiNoi Local Administration. He lived in Phrae province. He was shot by criminal. A criminal used a short gun shoot 5 times to him. A bullet shaved his head. His hair slipped off disarranged. But he was not wounded from this event.
He reveled that he got this takrut kar sa tong in B.E.2532. He hanged this takrut all the time.
He believed that this was the blessing of takrut kar sa tong of Kruba Noi. After that, he met Kruba Noi immediately. He mentioned this miralces event to kruba noi, which he then chanted mantra and blow at his head.

Escape from Accident

This accident happen to one of my friend Mr Roy Sim. He was wearing Kruba noi kar sa tong takrut and riding his motorbike along Tuas road( heavy Industrial area and Traffic).

He was riding at a fast speed and did not saw an oil patch in front of the road. His motorbike came across the oil batch which it went out of control and ski along the road. He was then flee out of this bike and fell hard on the middle of the road, rowing a few meters.

At that point of time one car behind him was also driving at a fast speed approaching him, but Miraculously it managed to drive out of the way, barely and nearly avoid knocking him down.

Roy t immediately pick himself up and realised that surprisingly he was not hurt or suffered from any bone fractured despite the bad fall. He did not even went to the hospital for further check up as he was feeling perfectly fine.

He strongly believed that Kruba Noi takrut Kar sar tong had saved his life.


Such is the power of the miraclous Kruba Noi kar sar tong takrut.




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Monday, March 17, 2008

Temple to donate coffin

i has also recive a lot of enquires about what to do and which temple to visit in bangkok.
Here i will introduce a very good activite that everyone should do.
Donate coffin to those people, without families, who die in accident.
This is a very good merit which you can do when in bangkok...
here is the address:

the name of the temple is called Wat Hualampong.
Road name is rama 4 road.
When reach there just go to the counter, pay and they will give you a pink paper.
write your name on a pink sheet of paper. they will give u a receipt plus the pink paper. pink paper u go and get some glue and stick on the wodden coffins on display. the receipt u take and go in to the chinese temple and pray then burn in the urn.
then go behind to the thai temple to go take a look. very nice.


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Friday, March 14, 2008

Email from unknown person

I has receive a lot of email from people who i do not know ask me amulets which i do not deal with...
for example, a guy email me ask me is there such charm that can be put in water for woman to drink....

well, i decided to publish it in my blog to tell people to STOP EMAIL ME ASKING ME THINGS WHICH I DO NOT DEAL WITH BECAUSE I DO NOT KNOW THE SOURCE OF THE AMULETS...
I WILL NOT ENTERTAIN SUCH ENQUIRY.
I FEEL VERY FUNNY...
WHY PEOPLE NOWADAYS BUY AMULETS FROM DEALERS WHICH THEY THEMSELVES DO NOT KNOW WELL?
THEY ARE ASKING AROUND HOPE TO GAIN CONFIDENCE FOR THEIR DEALERS?????

I HAS ANOTHER EMAIL FROM A PERSON TOLD ME THAT AFTER GETTING AMULETS FROM A DEALERS, HE FEEL HIS LIFE IN DANGER BECAUSE HE FEEL SOMETHING HURTING HIM....
AT NIGHT SOMETHING HAS SEX WITH HIM...

SO....
PLEASE DO NOT EMAIL ME ABOUT AMULETS WHICH I DO NOT DEAL...
GO AND FIND BACK YOUR DEALER WHO YOU BUY AND ASK THEM....

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Monday, March 10, 2008

Does size matter?????

I know my blog is about amulet, charm, magic supernature but when i see this video clip, i feel that beside email to my friends to share, i should place it in my blog to share this very funny video clip...
You must really see it, it damn funny....
The title is: does size matter????
And please turn on your volume when watching it...
People who are not open to dirty jokes, please do not view.
Enjoy....


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Monday, March 3, 2008

Jatukarm make with of ash and bones?????

















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AMULETS MAKE OF 28 BABY ASH!!!!!!
Thai Buddhist temple has been reprimanded by religious authorities for selling amulets containing the ashes of cremated infants to raise money for a plot of land and a crematorium, an official said on Tuesday.
The bodies of 28 foetuses or infants who died of natural causes were cremated legally at the temple's ageing incinerator, they said, as Thailand 's craze for Jatukam Ramathep amulets promising wealth showed no signs of easing.
"It is not illegal, but it is inappropriate," an official of the local office of Buddhism told Reuters.
"The chief provincial monk has submitted a formal reprimand letter to the temple's abbot," said the official, who declined to be identified.
The Thawee Kara Anant temple in a northern Bangkok suburb was taking advantage of a craze for the amulets that promise to make their owners "super rich" or "rich without reason" sweeping across predominantly Buddhist Thailand.
In July, it made 140,000 disc-shaped amulets about the size of a coffee-cup lid from a variety of herbs and human ashes and had sold most of them, a monk at the temple said.
The idea of mixing the human ashes into the "Multiple Rich" amulets came after neighbours told the abbot they saw spirits of dead infants buried in the temple graveyard in their dreams asking to be freed, monk Lertsak Thitayano told Reuters.
"The abbot wanted to set them free so he decided to cremate them and make merit for them by mixing their ashes into the amulets to empower them in helping the people," he said.
To gain maximum "power", the Jatukam Ramathep amulets, named after two Hindu gods, have to be prayed over by monks for days.

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