Other & unsorted Southeast Asia
What it is
Objects from this tradition that do not fit the types above, or whose catalogue records are too brief to sort further. Browse them for unusual forms.
History
Buddhist votive tablets pressed from clay to earn merit spread from India to Burma, Thailand, Cambodia and Indonesia from the 7th century. In Thailand this grew into the most intense living amulet culture in the world: phra khrueang (sacred objects) consecrated by revered monks, graded by temple, batch and monk, and traded at huge markets such as Tha Prachan in Bangkok, where prices for famous pieces reach millions of baht. Alongside Buddhism run older animist and Brahmanic beliefs in invulnerability (khong krapan), charm (metta) and luck. The Philippines developed its own Catholic-folk anting-anting.
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Buddhist votive tablets pressed from clay to earn merit spread from India to Burma, Thailand, Cambodia and Indonesia from the 7th century. In Thailand this grew into the most intense living amulet culture in the world: phra khrueang (sacred objects) consecrated by revered monks, graded by temple, batch and monk, and traded at huge markets such as Tha Prachan in Bangkok, where prices for famous pieces reach millions of baht. Alongside Buddhism run older animist and Brahmanic beliefs in invulnerability (khong krapan), charm (metta) and luck. The Philippines developed its own Catholic-folk anting-anting.
Rangoon. The Votive TreeMyanmar · 1855
Mermaid-Nonthaburi44Thailand
พระสมเด็จวัดระฆัง รุ่น214 ปีชาตกาล พิมพ์พระประธาน
Malayan black magic charm
Phra Ngang Statue by LP AmnajThailand
สมเด็จโนนผึ้้ง หลังยันต์ห้า
Malayan black magic charm
พระงั่งหลวงพ่อเมียน วัดบ้านจะเนียง (วัดจะเนียงวนาราม) 4Thailand
Annam MinhMang GrandeProsperite 1ar85 (8545704742)
Malayan black magic charm
IPher ePher SENIOR set 2 พระงั่งหลวงพ่อเมียน วัดบ้านจะเนียง เนื้อทองทิพย์รมดำThailand
Portrait of Stanisław Bogusław Leszczyński. label QS:Les,"Retrato de Estanislao Boguslao Leszczyński." label QS:Lpl,"Portret Stanisława Bogusława Leszczyńskiego." label QS:Len,"Portrait of Stanisław B
Set of charms in Malay.
พระงั่งหลวงพ่อเมียน วัดบ้านจะเนียง (วัดจะเนียงวนาราม) 1Thailand
Talisman Market (Bangkok, Thailand) (28249305791)
Set of charms in Malay.
Talisman Market (Bangkok, Thailand) (28327739995)
A Dayak shaman or medicine man holding a flaming torch and some charms. Wood engraving.
Talisman Market in Bangkok (Thailand) (27711898293)
พระสมเด็จวัดระฆัง รุ่น 214 ปีชาตกาล (ด้านหลัง)
Pi-Amulette
Talisman Market (Bangkok, Thailand) (28327737485)
สมเด็จโตหลวงปู่วิเวียร
Citizen of Amulet Market-1 (2018; cropped 2025)
Chinese Coinage Web Site (Charm.ru) logo
Pig charm (tuntun), Borneo, Sarawak, Iban, Honolulu Museum of Art
Talisman Market (Bangkok, Thailand) (28224076702)
Talisman Market (Bangkok, Thailand) (28327738185)
Talisman Market Bangkok (Thailand) (28224076662)
Trẻ con hát, trẻ con chơi - Nguyễn Văn-Vĩnh (1943) - Bùi Quang Tuấn (15 October 2020)
พระสมเด็จวัดระฆัง รุ่น214 ปีชาตกาล พิมพ์พระประธาน แตกลายงา
DSC 9963 A row of small meditative monk statues and amulets displayed on a market table each seated in traditional robes under warm evening lights
Annam ThieuTri 60dong 1ar85 (8548384108)
Pi-Amul
Talisman Market (Bangkok, Thailand) (28327736895)
Talisman Market in Bangkok (Thailand) (27711898683)
พระสมเด็จอุณาโลม ทรงจิตรลดา ปี ๒๕๑๙ ที่สุดแห่งมงคลสักการะในรัชกาลที่ ๙
Quinlong Tongbao cash coin
Talisman Market (Bangkok, Thailand) (28224078212)
Talisman Market (Bangkok, Thailand) (28327739875)
พระสมเด็จวัดระฆัง (214 ปีชาตกาล)02
พระสมเด็จวัดระฆัง รุ่น 214 ปีชาตกาล
Citizen of Amulet Market-1
Amuletmarket
Talisman Market (Bangkok, Thailand) (27711897893)
Talisman Market (Bangkok, Thailand) (28327737945)
Talisman Market Bangkok (27) (28327739375)
พระสมเด็จวัดระฆัง รุ่น214 ปีชาตกาล พิมพ์พระประธาน ด้านหลัง
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