In 1956, many countries around the world celebrated 2,500 years of the Buddha’s Parinirvana, or his final departure from the ...

Under the agreement, the relics will be kept in Sri Lanka till fifth of next month during the annual celebrations marking the birth of Buddha called Vesakh Mela. Speaking on the occasion, the Sri ...

"We are also Buddha's daughters born on this soil ... For more than 1,000 years, there were no Bhikkunis in Sri Lanka: their line had died out following years of persecution at the hands of ...

To this day, though controversial, Vishnu in Sri Lanka is a future Buddha, just as in India, Buddha is a former Vishnu.

No Fire Zone is mentioned. Tell the UN, tell the Red Cross, tell the newspaper that we are dying, we die on the beach, we die in the sea, said the fictional hostages. In the Mullavaikkal rescue the ...

Buddhism is a religion or philosophy founded in the 5th century BCE by Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, born a prince ... practiced primarily in Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos ...

It’s said to date back to the 18th century, when the kings of Kandy, in northern Sri Lanka, ruled over the whole island. Inside, a seated idol of the Buddha ... Urban Island: Born as a skills ...

Born on Nov. 24, 1968 into an ordinary family in a paddy-growing central part of Sri Lanka, Dissanayake was politically ...

The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, previously known as Ceylon, is governed by an elected president and legislature. The young nation was born in 1948, when the early Sinhalese ...

In 1956, many countries around the world celebrated 2,500 years of the Buddha’s Parinirvana, or his final departure from the world. Sri Lanka and ... person who was born in Kapilavastu?

Left-leaning politician Anura Kumara Dissanayake has been elected as Sri Lanka’s next president after he won the debt-ridden ...