COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — It was time to reclaim the holiday. To put the Buddha back into Vesak, so to speak. Buddhist Holiday Has Sri Lanka Pondering the Place of Religion ...

KANDY, Sri Lanka— Buddhist mobs swept through Muslim neighborhoods in Sri Lanka’s central hills, destroying stores and restaurants and setting homes on fire despite a curfew, a state of ...

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A local Buddhist man said the Muslims were using improvised explosives, which the men in the mosque denied. A house stands vandalized in racial violence near Galle, Sri Lanka, Saturday, Nov. 18, 2017.

Sri Lanka Declares Emergency Amid Buddhist Attacks On Minority Muslims : ... after Buddhist mobs attacked their homes Wednesday morning accusing them of stealing the donation box of a nearby temple.

Gunmen stormed a Buddhist temple in eastern Sri Lanka and shot dead the chief monk, and the military said four Tamil Tiger rebels were killed in clashes with soldiers in the northwest.

Pope Francis made a spontaneous visit to a Buddhist temple Wednesday afternoon during his two-day visit to this island nation in what appears to be the second such visit by a pope. Vatican ...

Many Buddhist temples in south Sri Lanka have made the divine form of Naga (Natha Deva) into a Bodhisattva. Worship of Deities . God Sumana of Samantakuta is also a pre-Buddhist deity.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ends his two-day visit to Sri Lanka with a visit to a historic Buddhist temple on the outskirts of the capital Colombo. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).

The winner of Sri Lanka's presidential election, Gotabaya Rajapaksa made national security his top priority after being sworn in on Monday at an ancient temple in the north-central city of ...

On Sunday evening, more than 30 people gathered at the Minnesota Buddhist Vihara in north Minneapolis to send peaceful energy and blessings to the victims of the attacks in Sri Lanka. Witiyala ...