Ong-Bak
องค์บาก
Prachya Pinkaew's film, starring Tony Jaa, which sold muay boran to an international audience that had never heard of it.
On screen and on the wall
The statues, the films and the song that taught most of the world the word.
Film
Sculpture
The fifteen, standing in a courtyard
รูปปั้นแม่ไม้ วัดบางกุ้ง
Wat Bang Kung in Samut Songkhram — an Ayutthaya-period temple wrapped in the roots of a banyan — has the mae mai and luk mai set up in its grounds as…
Text
The epic in the technique list
รามเกียรติ์ในสังเวียน
The Ramakien — the Thai telling of the Ramayana — supplies the cast of the curriculum: Rama, Hanuman, Thotsakan, Sida, Erawan, the nagas, the…