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Being a seasoned journalist specializes in the trade/hobby of Thai amulets collecting,
Weerapong gets many opportunities in enabling him to access to many Guru Collectors
at the northern provinces. I have asked him to provide me some antique collectible
amulets from Northern Thailand that he thinks worth looking at the end of my first
trip and when during my second trip back to Chiangmai, despite I had a very short
span of time of only 1-1/2 days' stay at this lovely ancient city, he can still managed
to fulfill my request by providing me some high quality images for the purpose of
completing this section of the site. As you can observe, these amulets shown below
are not entirely conventional ("classical") types of Buddhist images as
favoured by many other Thai amulet lovers on other parts of Thailand, because what
he has chosen to showcase here also indirectly reflects the taste & culture of
how in appreciating "old things" by the northern Khun Thai. I hope I can
gather more images from him and publish them in a separate section(s) later. Come
to think of it, since the Thai Prime Minister Mr.
Thaksin Shinawatra
also comes from a Northern province (San Kampaeng (?), just wondering what Images
is he "using". Well, if he uses a native northern image(s) I think it will
certainly help to elevate Buddhist images at the north to new heights where such
publicity may help them gaining popularity comparable to other classical images favour
at the central & southern provinces (hopefully the energetic Thai PM knows politically how NOT to wear a
"cross" in front of his neck even if he is one.. simply because I think
it can be quite disastrous to the continuous development of this native oriental
religion in this Buddhism-feverish Kingdom. Well, I do know this statement may upset
some stomach somewhere and although I know everyone is entitled to individual religious
belief but since Buddhism is almost synonymous with the Kingdom itself, and such
unacceptable truth (simply from an average Buddhist Thai's perspective) can
well be a straight political suicide for anyone; while on the other hand, as the
current Thai PM has done a lot of good things for his country thus far afer the Asian
financial crises, I do wish he can stay longer in enabling this ASEAM neighbor to
progress stronger economically in order to improve the well being of all Thai public,
so - sorry to be that frank, hehe ....).
NOTE:- Some of these very old Buddhist
amulets are for sale
- as Weerapong intends to get a new home for his family, I have suggested to him
to sell some of these to raise money as downpayment (banks sometimes can be very
realistic on age of borrowers.. He agreed and also listen to my advice - offers Money
back guaranteed terms. If anyone of you wishes to have a good, old pieces for yourself
and/or family members/ you can contact him via the phone numbers below.
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Important: ALL images presented in this
PARTICULAR page were works of Weerapong Srivichai®, Chiangmai News. Please respect the
visual property of the photographer. All images copyright 2004 All rights Reserved.
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Soomdej
WRK Phim Chong Jedee
Front Section (98k) | Rear Section (96k)
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Unverified
Image
Front (131k) | Rear (121k)
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1st Batch
LP Thuad, Wat Phra Koh
Front Section (108k)
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Mr. Weerapong
Srivichai® <weerapong_srivichai@yahoo.com> (Tel: +66(0)66569515
/ +6694313989), aged 53, a veteran journalist attaching to the Chiang Mai News
Network. He writes a weekly column on the newspaper relates to Thai amulets,
interesting temples and individual character that relates to this highly popular
local hobby. He travels extensively around the Kingdom and has great interest in
collectibles. Loves wine, cigar and appreciates beautiful women except that he is
now attaching to a very beautiful wife, Miss Piyathida who attaches to a local
hospital. He has three children, one works in Japan, the eldest son who runs a digital
studio business in Lampang and a 7 years old son. A great character by nature, a
very passionate guy indeed. Here is an article (528k)
he wrote about my visit, haha ...lastly, if anyone of you are interested in acquiring
amulets from Northern Thai provinces, you call call him directly.
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A cozy cyber cafe locates at Changklan Road with all wide screen notebooks
and a rare find - an I-Mac ! You can also make long distance calls cheaply.
The bachelor owner, Mr. Jeeraphan Kanchanaveera®
("Yut" +66 53 27 53 33) is friendly and ever helpful.
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Being a native Khun Thai from Chiangmai, even
when surrounded by day to day operation in Internet, IT & computers etc. (not
to mention all those beautiful Chiangmai gals that circle around his daily life after
work...), Jeeraphan ("Tut") still
finds a small corner for Buddhism in his heart (he told me his late father was another
fanatic). Here is a very old piece (estimate to be around 800 years old) of a "Phra
3 Velang Ta kan" Front Section (132k)
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this site.
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a personal desire to acquire or disposal any particular Buddhist image ? Please make
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Credit: To all the good
people who have contributed their own experience, resources or those who are kind
enough in granting us the permission to use their images that appeared on this site.
Mr. Wichian Phetratanamunee® (+6-012-2612207
(Malaysia);+66(0)74-421248 Thailand), my master and mentor all these years.
My friend, Mr. Ho
Fook Sang® from Ipoh, Perak
(+06-0125388633,
+605-5415433)
who has been helping me all this long with wonderful source of information on Thai
Buddha Imageries; my partner, Mr. Paul Lim, who shares the same passion
together with me. Uncle
Lim®, from TONG SOON
Trading,
Pudu Plaza (+06-012-9128391) who has given
me some guidance relating to the background of some of the Thai amulets and lastly,
Miss MaeV who helped me
edit and patching some mistakes found on some of the pages in this site. Mr. Alan Tan "Arohka®" who contributes
some of his excellent articles fro this site, Mr. Weerapong Srivichai®, (+6609999974) from Chiangmai
News Co. Ltd. who has inspired me with so many new findings on Thai Amulets; Mr.
"Ben", Col. Samay, Mdm Wannee, Mr Adisak® & many others
who share so much passion towards construction of this website and not to mention
all the time and effort spent by volunteered Co-Maintainers of the Message Board. Note: Certain content
and images appeared on this site were taken by using a Canon PowerShot Pro-1, G2
and Sony digital cameras. Some materials appeared on this site were scanned from
some leaflets, brochures or publications published in Thai and/or contribution from
surfers who claimed originality of their work for educational purposes. The creator
of the site will not be responsible for any discrepancies that may arise from such
dispute except rectifying them after verification. Site made with an Apple IMac.
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