?> Thailand – New Dawn – World's Most Unusual Magazine https://www.newdawnmagazine.com Fri, 17 Mar 2023 10:54:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.newdawnmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/cropped-Site-Icon-150x150.jpg Thailand – New Dawn – World's Most Unusual Magazine https://www.newdawnmagazine.com 32 32 Mystery Thailand: Monks, Magic & the Spirit World https://www.newdawnmagazine.com/articles/paranormal-unexplained/mystery-thailand-monks-magic-the-spirit-world Thu, 26 Mar 2015 10:03:38 +0000 http://www.newdawnsandbox.dreamhosters.com/?p=5585 What country is the most occult in the world? Lying smack dab in the heart of Southeast Asia, Thailand arguably fits the bill. This is a country that truly believes in spirits and supernatural power. Thailand has it all. With sorcerers who collect oil from the chin of corpses to perform black magic, spirit mediums who channel Hindu deities, a festival to the gods involving possessed devotees…

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Monks & Magic: Buddhism and the Supernatural in Thailand https://www.newdawnmagazine.com/articles/paranormal-unexplained/monks-magic-buddhism-and-the-supernatural-in-thailand Sun, 11 Jul 2010 04:39:11 +0000 http://www.newdawnsandbox.dreamhosters.com/?p=3463 In August 2008 Bun Rany, the wife of the Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, led Buddhist monks and soldiers to the site of the historic Hindu temple Preah Vihear to call upon their ancestors to protect the temple. The site of this temple is located on disputed land, perched atop a cliff on Cambodian soil but with the most accessible entrance to the site located on the Thai side of the border.

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