The days of Sri Lanka’s Buddhist kings and their monk advisers ended in the early 1800s with their defeat by the British, who ruled until independence in 1948. And though Buddhism was given pred ...

A circle forms. Friends and strangers gather to breathe and focus together. Applying Buddhist practices of healing meditation, they imbue a sense of relief and appreciation throughout their daily ...

The ceremony, which took place with the cooperation of the Bodhgaya Temple Management Committee (BTMC) and the Indo-Sri Lanka ...

Galaboda Aththe Gnanasara Thero leads a Buddhist nationalist group accused of violence A court in Sri Lanka has sentenced a hardline Buddhist monk to six months in prison for threatening the wife ...

It was on the Poson full moon day in June 306 B.C. (i.e. 237 years after the demise of the Buddha), that Arhat Mahinda formally introduced Buddhism including the Tripitaka to Sri Lanka. According to ...

Your browser does not support HTML5 video. The delegation of Sri Lankan Buddhist Monks arrived at rock carved Buddha at Jehanabad in the Swat Valley today (Saturday ...

Your browser does not support HTML5 video. A delegation of Sri Lankan Buddhist Monks visited Ashoka's Rock Edict at Shahbazgarhi in Mardan District of Khyber ...

A Buddhist monk nearby agrees: "People are putting aside religious and racial differences to join this struggle. Sri Lanka has become one united nation." Both men are from the Sinhala Buddhist ...

Colombo [Sri Lanka], April 4 (ANI): Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama has accomplished more for Buddhism than anyone in history and thus makes him the most eligible person to recieve Lord Buddha ...

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