If you were following pop culture even half-heartedly in the mid-2000s, you probably remember Angelina Jolie's adventures in Southeast Asia. During one of her most famous photo ops, the actress flew a ...

The three designs Kanpai etched into Jolie’s skin include ancient Thai Buddhist symbols and mantras and were meant to “symbolically bind them as husband and wife,” reported the Daily Mail. They were ...

Every year, usually in early March, more than 10,000 people flood into Wat Bang Phra, a Buddhist temple about 30 miles west of Bangkok famed for its magic tattoos and amulets. The participants enter ...

Wat Bang Phra, a temple in central Thailand, is renowned as a center for sak yant, a style of tattoo art believed by some to convey protective powers. An unordained tattoo artist applies ink with a ...

When Angelina Jolie showed off her first Thai tattoo 15 years ago—five lines of Buddhist blessings running down her back—she raised the country's international status for spiritual tattoos. The artist ...