ritualSuea phen, the leaping tiger
เสือเผ่น · suea phen
One monk, one forest, and a tiger on half the backs in the sport.
What it is
A tiger in mid-leap, usually one on each shoulder blade, for strength, command and the turning away of an attack.
The long version
The design is old and the reason it is everywhere is recent and traceable. In 1953 Luang Phor Pern walked into the forest on the Kanchanaburi border, where tigers had been killing villagers, and gave out kata and sak yant — telling them that the tiger yantra in particular would fend off an attack. His reputation was built on that, and the tiger came with it.
Inference — a fighter and a villager on that border want the same thing from it. Not luck. A specific mechanism against something coming at you fast.
Connected to
- Wat Bang Phra Whose forest.
- Sak yant The practice.
Named here by
- Sak yant The one fighters are known for.
- Wat Bang Phra What the tiger story produced.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | cited | Wat Bang Phra — Wikipedia (en) | |
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
- Wat Bang Phra — Wikipedia (en)
- Yantra tattooing — Wikipedia (en)
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