Colombo, Sri Lanka - February 11, 2025 Colombo on Tuesday celebrated the annual Navam Perahera Buddhist cultural parade at the historic Gangaramaya temple. FOOTAGE OF ANNUAL BUDDHIST CULTURAL PARADE ...

I am writing this brief essay in connection with the felicitation ceremony for Emeritus Professor Asanga Tilakaratne, one of the foremost Buddhist scholars in contemporary Sri Lanka. The ceremony will ...

It ranks among the very first temples in Sri Lanka, founded by Devanampiyatissa ... its length is painted with graphic images of Buddhist hell: a wake up call to pilgrims. Yet, Aluvihare is ...

Fifty-year-old Josef Autser is an engineer by profession and a Catholic by birth, but later showed a great devotion towards Buddhism ... and parcel to the Clean Sri Lanka Programme and shown ...

BANGKOK--Gruesome depictions in Buddhist temples of hell's torments are no laughing ... in other Southeast Asian countries such as Sri Lanka and Cambodia. Followers of Theravada Buddhism are ...

Sri Lanka, having preserved Buddhism in its purest form since its introduction in 236 BC, was undisputedly the key player in the 2600th Sambuddhathva Jayanthi celebrations. But what caused Buddhism to ...