KANDY, Sri Lanka--In this mountain city that was for centuries home to Sri Lanka’s kings and in recent years has been riven by religious violence, Buddhist nationalists are rejoicing the ...

The event was presided over by Ven Dr. K. Siri Sumedha Thero, President of the Indo-Sri Lanka International Buddhist ...

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 ...

The tragic death of one of Sri Lanka’s largest tusker elephants reportedly due to electrocution has raised concern and ...

KANDY, Sri Lanka -- It is August, and I have arrived in Kandy, Sri Lanka, to witness the Kandy Esala Perahera, one of the world's oldest and most grandiose cultural processions. This annual event, ...

Tensions have been building in Buddhist-majority Sri Lanka since 2012, said to have been fuelled by hard-line Buddhists. Under the state of emergency, the authorities are able to arrest and detain ...