Street shows meant for profit-making and entertainment overshadow the sacred meaning of the festival, they say ...

Buddhist monks from India and Sri Lanka started a two-day dialogue in New Delhi beginning on Wednesday to discuss their respective spiritual traditions, values. The monks held detailed discussion on ...

Sri Lankan authorities yesterday arrested a police officer and a Buddhist monk accused ... an extremist monk in Mandalay whose hate speech has galvanised religious tensions in Myanmar. Wirathu visited ...

Buddhism, particularly in the Theravāda tradition practiced in Sri Lanka, sets out clear ethical principles for personal and ...

Keeping in line with the ethos of what Venerable Rahula stood for all his life, his guiding beliefs, ideals and practice of what he believed in, primarily the freedom to think critically and look at ...

If nations of the Global South rediscover the habit of solidarity, grounded not in nostalgia but in mutual self-interest, ...

For Ryushun Kusanagi, Buddhism is more than a religion, as it can serve as a philosophy of life to cope with modern daily ...

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 ...

LISTEN TO YOUR HEART Nanda is one of the most amazing women to have entered Sri Lanka’s world of literature. Not only does ...

A most worrying sight was it, Fabled Colombo in the storm’s eye, Writhing in destruction rarely seen, Posing once again ...

An account of how Prince Siddhartha left the comfort and safety of his father’s palace and saw ‘Four Sights’ that were to change his life. As he looked on old age, sickness, death and ...

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