Useful info about Kumantong, Kumanthong ( KMT ), Gumantong, Gumanthong ( GMT )， 古曼童

Kumantong is sometime spelt as Kumanthong or Gumantong or Gumanthong or 古曼童

I won't be explaining too much about kumantong in this blog. I will focus mainly on dreams that are linked to kumantong.

Kumantong is basically related to Shamanism but adapted by Buddhist monks in Thailand.

If you are interested to find out more about kumantong, you can read:
http://www.simplybuy8.blogspot.com/2011/09/mystery-of-guman-thong-explained.html
and
http://www.amuletcity.org/kmt_offering.html

I do not recommend you to acquire kumantong from dealers. I would highly recommend you to visit reputable temples in Thailand to personally acquire from the monks there.

There are many fake amulets/statues sold by dealers that do not come from Buddhist temples in Thailand and not chanted and blessed by the temple monks who are experienced with the spiritual world.

You can minimize/avoid the risk of getting fake items by simply acquiring the genuine one personally from the Buddhist temples in Thailand.

There is a forum which I find very informative:
http://amuletforums.com/forums/kumantong-kmt.36/

This forum also contain useful travel info on temple visit in Thailand.

Don't rush to acquire a kumantong. If your soul and the kumantong soul are destined to meet, you will somehow come into contact with the kumantong. Be patient.

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What is kumantong? Here is a quote from
http://www.simplybuy8.blogspot.com/2011/09/mystery-of-guman-thong-explained.html

 "... ... Contrary to popular beliefs, Guman Thongs are not evil spirits as they have been blessed and accepted a vow given by the monks who made them. Their entire objective is to respect and give a helping hand to their benefactor or adopted parents.

In Buddhist concept, we have to seek right understanding in order for knowledge to arise. This concept is applied to meditation practice but certainly can be applied to other areas. It’s only through right understanding only then we can fully comprehend the knowledge. But in most cases, the lack of understanding will eventually lead oneself to believe that Guman Thong are ghostly beings that will cause backfire if they are not being taken care properly. Over the years, many names have been given to Guman Thong e.g. Black Magic Baby, Resident Ghost, Ghost Baby, etc. This actually gave a scary image of Guman Thong and a wrong ideology to many people. It must be noted that there are other black magic occults that are on the real dark side such as Phra Ngan or ghostly spirits that are purely made for evil purpose.

In my understanding we must differentiate two main entities of the underworld; child beings and ghostly beings. Both entities are residing in the ghost realm where we as humans are born in the human realm. Between these 2 entities, the real significance of a child being is that they are being converted to Buddhism by monks who made the talisman. Some child spirits are being selected because they have the Dharma seeds in them and they are deemed suitable to be Guman Thong in the form of Loop or Bucha. If a person really takes care of such Guman Thong well, it will help its benefactor in fulfilling his/her wholesome wishes in this life and the life after next. Even after the little Guman Thongs is reborn, it will still come back as deva or a being from a higher realm somehow to be of service to the benefactor.

A lot of people don’t realize that Guman Thongs can turn good or evil depending on the mind actions of their owners.  Just like any human being they can be a good meritorious person or a bad person depending on his/her mental faculty. To explain this further, an owner can teach the Guman Thong to cultivate in the Dhamma and accumulate merits. Another owner with a weak deluded mind could teach his Guman Thong to do evil actions for his own personal gains knowing that Guman Thong has supernormal abilities.  Guman Thongs are just little children and their fragile minds can be corrupted into evil actions or cultivated to be pure. Karma is a force to be reckoned with as it will haunt the evil doers. Teaching bad stuffs or motivating Guman Thong to do evil misdeeds will lead the owner to suffer in the cycle of rebirth. Therefore, it is right to say a person who owns Guman Thongs should have the correct motivation to earn merit for oneself as well as for these child beings.

There are various reasons why human and all sentient beings have to ceased life. But have you ever wonder why some children die before birth and why such karma takes this cause of effect? Why do monks choose these children spirits to be made into Guman Thong?

The short video clip here is a very sad tale of Guman Thong and the life they have to lead in working hard to help his benefactor in the hope of liberating itself from such tragedy. This cute video clip may make some of us feel saddened knowing that the life of being a Guman Thong is not easy as they have to work very hard to gain merits to be reborn again. 

Some experts believe that once a woman had an abortion or a miscarriage, she would have sins whether it’s on purpose or not. When parents have this sin, their karma will be brought over to their descendants. Even when the unborn child is in the underworld, they will have to suffer on behalf of their parents. This is why child spirits only gets to come back after they finish their sentence in hell. Both the unborn child and parents will have to suffer due to that karma.

How long will the child spirits in the underworld take to come back into the human realm? Nobody knows for sure. But what will their sentence be? From certain folk stories all child spirits will be brought to a beach and they are required to finish a difficult task then they can swim over to the other side of the sea to reach the shore. Then they can come up and reunite with their parents. Do note that they are naked and have to bear with hunger and colds. They are required to conduct these tasks before they are able to be reborn with a parent in the human realm.

1) Build a tall pagoda with bricks.

2) Obstacles will be the strong current of the waves that will flush away the bricks.

3) Hell Guardians serving as coast guards holding big clubs with sharp thorns will be patrolling the beach to prevent the children to swim across without finishing their task. Whenever they get to see a Pagoda tall enough for them to finish, they will hit the Pagoda to prevent them from finishing or hit the child who stopped half way. They will hit the children without any mercy and see that they are bleeding and wounded but still working hard and in building the Pagaoda as their only way out to safety.

Those child spirits who can get their pagoda finish will be the luckiest ones. This is the reason why a lot of parents or woman who aborted babies before only gets to feel their lost child's presence after a few years. But some parents will never get to feel or see their lost child.

For those who really get to finish the difficult task and managed to swim across the cold ocean just to survive so that they can come back to find their parents may be dismayed. It would have been a few years already and most of the parents are already with newborn children. And that is why, we have cases like Child spirits hating and hold grudges as they never get the chance to live as newborns. And this is where we have child spirits that cannot leave in peace and follow their parents where ever they go. Some of these unfortunate children spirits can understand. But some cannot and they are grieving deeply.

There are such parents who do not know that their deceased child have suffered so much because of them. Without knowing and fearing that their own child spirit, the heartless parents can even go to the extent to employ exorcist to kill their own child spirits to prevent the child from going near them.

This is why we will have Great ‘Gaeji’ Monks or Ajahns specialized in this field helped them to relief their pains and suffering. Giving them a chance to be loved once again, it is also a chance for them to accumulate merits and help adopting parents (e.g. Guman Thong owners) so that these benefactors can help redeem the child beings sins in order for the child beings to go for a happy rebirth in the Deva realms.  ... ... "

[above quote from
http://www.simplybuy8.blogspot.com/2011/09/mystery-of-guman-thong-explained.html  ]