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 ...

The Clean Sri Lanka project is urged to advocate for stronger legal measures against unethical religious conversion practices. It is crucial for local Buddhist temples, government authorities, and the ...

Tamils, Muslims, and Malays are non-indigenous minority settler communities of Sri Lanka who settled in the island at different times in the past, coming from their own homelands or motherlands. These ...

COLOMBO: A Sri Lankan court has imprisoned a politically powerful Buddhist monk for the second ... year on a similar charge of disparaging Sri Lanka's minority Muslims, who account for just ...

C OLOMBO — 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 ...

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 ...

Colombo, Jan 9 (PTI) A firebrand Sri Lankan Buddhist majority hardliner monk was on Thursday sentenced to nine months imprisonment by the Colombo Magistrate’s Court for his Islamophobic comments made ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Sri Lanka’s Kusal Mendis plays during the 3rd one day international cricket match between New Zealand and ...

Through an overview of his life, we will highlight some of his most relevant works in Nepal and Sri Lanka and understand how Pruscha managed to stamp his unique visions of architecture and cities ...

China and Sri Lanka sign 15 cooperation documents China is Sri Lanka's biggest bilateral lender New Sri Lankan president also courting regional rival India BEIJING, Jan 15 (Reuters) - China and ...

Sri Lanka finds itself at the heart of a geopolitical ... Its charge d’affaires in Colombo raced to Kandy to warn a top Buddhist monk of damage to bilateral relations if the Tibetan leader ...

And on that note it's a wrap from us. Australia have set a marker for this series, and Sri Lanka will have about five days to reflect till the start of the second Test on the Feb 6, which is this ...