According to the Pew Research Center, about one-quarter of countries worldwide exhibit “high” or “very high” levels of social ...

But like any religion, Buddhism has a far more complicated story than that – and Sri Lanka has seen many disturbing ... of the 19th century, the monks who invoked Buddhist texts to justify ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – With a bloody civil war over and a cautious peace at hand, a group of hardline Buddhist monks is rallying ... Sena interviewed for this story declined to speak on the ...

a Sri Lankan monk living in Kandy, a city in Sri Lanka’s central highlands. RELATED: Buddhist leader in Bhutan fully ordains 144 women, resuming ancient tradition The connection between monks ...

Buddhist monk Galagodaatte Gnanasara speaks to the media at the Rukmale Sri Dharma Vijayaloka Maha Viharaya temple in the ...

Gunmen stormed a Buddhist temple in eastern Sri Lanka and shot dead the chief monk, and the military said four Tamil Tiger rebels were killed in clashes with soldiers in the northwest. The Rev ...

Ven. Pallegama Hemarathana Thero, a prominent Buddhist monk in Sri Lanka, has expressed his happiness and gratitude towards Prime Minister Narendra Modi's second visit to Sri Lanka's Anuradhapura ...

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist ...

RNS is solely responsible for this story. Political involvement by the monks — easy ... and aimed at creating a Buddhist dominated nation, are infamous in Sri Lanka. Dharampala’s goals were ...

COLOMBO — A court in Sri Lanka jailed a politically influential, firebrand Buddhist monk on Thursday, put-ting him behind bars for a second time for insulting Islam and stoking religious hatred in the ...