RNS is solely responsible for this story. Political involvement by the monks — easy to spot in the protests against Rajapaksa’s inaction on Sri Lanka’s economic woes — also includes taking ...

“We will fight until this attire is banned from this country, so that there is no chance to unofficially enforce the Islamic Sharia Law in Sri Lanka,” one monk, as if ventriloquising the ...

A senior Buddhist monk in Sri Lanka has ended a six-day hunger strike after the president gave assurances over her deal with Tamil Tiger rebels on tsunami aid. Omalpe Sobitha had refused food and ...

A Buddhist monk who set himself alight as an act of protest has died of his injuries in Sri Lanka. Bowatte Indarathana was protesting against the slaughter of cattle and the alleged conversion of ...

The group was welcomed by several Sri Lankan monks including Sri Vajiravamsathissa Stawira thero. This Buddhist delegation is expected to establish religious and cultural relations between Sri Lanka ...

the saffron-robed Buddhist monks who are fixtures of Sri Lanka’s political scene.(AP Photo/Amitha Thennakoon, File) ...

A delegation of 100 Thai monks, who are on a foot pilgrimage through Buddhist countries around the world, wishing for world peace, recently arrived in Sri Lanka. It is noteworthy that they ...

RNS is solely responsible for this story. Political involvement by the monks — easy to spot in the protests against Rajapaksa’s inaction on Sri Lanka’s economic woes — also includes taking ...

the saffron-robed Buddhist monks who are fixtures of Sri Lanka’s political scene. But with Rajapaksa in exile in Singapore and life returning closer to normal, decades-old questions are being ...

Political involvement by the monks — easy to spot in the protests against Rajapaksa’s inaction on Sri Lanka’s economic woes — also includes taking seats in Parliament and joining political ...