As a way of opening space for themselves in a religious world that otherwise refuses to recognize them, queer and trans Thai Buddhist artists in Bangkok have developed an array of innovative aesthetic practices to re-work key Buddhist philosophies, materialities, and rituals and expand the Buddhist path. Queer and trans Thai people have generally appeared in scholarship as victims of religious prohibitions and exclusions. But I approach them instead as agents who actively re-shape Thai Buddhist practices and beliefs. Through their art-making, they at once re-define and strengthen their connections to Thai Buddhism. By working with Buddhist materials—ritual flowers, live fish, monastic robes, rope, and so on—these artists create new relationships with their own bodies, the natural world, and the Buddhist teachings, forging what I call “Buddhist material intimacies.” The result is a profound revisioning of Buddhist ethics for themselves and on behalf of other queer and trans Thai people.