A Thai businessman miraculously survived a point-blank gunshot to his chest when the bullet struck his lucky Buddhist amulet. Pornchai Horasakul, 50, was shot in broad daylight during a business lunch ...

A Thai Buddhist temple has been reprimanded by religious authorities for selling amulets containing the ashes of cremated infants to raise money for a plot of land and a crematorium, an official ...

Many Thais fervently believe in good and malevolent spirits -- and that offerings or the latest lucky charm will ward off bad karma. In the late 2000s a style of large amulet became the latest "must ...

Collecting amulets and other small religious trinkets is a popular pastime in Buddhist-majority Thailand, where the capital Bangkok has a market solely dedicated to the traders of these lucky objects.

The deeply superstitious culture also revels in the power of lucky charms, with amulets blessed by monks visible everywhere, often dangling from people’s chests or their rearview mirrors.