Sri Lanka's Marxist president-elect Anura Kumara Dissanayaka hails from a party behind two deadly insurrections, counts Che ...

"But the Buddhist Affairs Department refused to issue me an identity card." Her tears are unsurprising. After all, an identity card is key to life in Sri Lanka, needed for everything from voting ...

The Theravada Buddhism is spread by our monks ... commented - "This important occasion will lead to a long-lasting friendship between China and Sri Lanka. The statue is presented by the first and ...

A senior Buddhist delegation from the Maha Chulalongkorn Raja Vidyalaya University in Aythya, Thailand agreed to establish strong links with universities in Sri Lanka to further strengthen close ...

Theravada Economic Concepts Theravada Buddhism, often regarded as more conservative and focused on individual liberation, emphasises personal responsibility in the accumulation and use of wealth. It ...

Most of the books listed below only deal with Death and Funeral rites in passing and it is advisable (where nothing is indicated) to check in the index of the individual listed book for keywords such ...

Four other Buddhist-majority countries are the source of roughly a quarter of all the Buddhists who now live outside their country of birth: Thailand (670,000), Laos (990,000), Cambodia (810,000) and ...

While Buddhist links between Korea and the Indian sub-continent can be traced back to the 5th century AD, Buddhist links between Sri Lanka and Korea go back to the 13th to 15th centuries. Thus there ...

Sri Lanka, a teardrop-shaped island in the Indian Ocean, lies south of India and is a stone’s throw from the Maldives. This part of Asia is where the original soul of Buddhism still flourishes ...

Hurd, Elizabeth Shakman 2017. Narratives of de-secularization in international relations. Intellectual History Review, Vol. 27, Issue. 1, p. 97. Woods, Orlando 2018. (Re)producing Buddhist hegemony in ...

The Ancient Period About 2600 years ago, migrants from northern India, the ancestors of today’s Sinhalese people, arrived in Sri Lanka. The Sinhalese were among the earliest people outside northern ...