In a monastery in central Myanmar, a Buddhist monk, Wathawa, rallies his militia with a cry: “What’s our spirit like?” “The spirit of iron!” shout a group of rifle-bearing men ...

He said that at that time the main partners of the UPFA had decided on appointing Lakshman Kadirgamar as the Prime Minister, however the Buddhist monks and members of the JHU had called for the ...

Likened by Buddhists to the Vatican City, Ganden is considered the most influential monastery of Tibetan Buddhism. Monks lived in the monastery for more than 500 years before a brutal invasion ...

Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa has appointed Attorney-at-Law Raveendra Manoj Gamage as his official media spokesman. Gamage obtained his appointment letter at the former President’s official ...

Colombo, January 2 (Daily Mirror) - Responding to rumors of possible life threats to former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka stated that no one is foolish enough to kill ...

KAMALIKA PIERIS Theater enthusiasts in the newly independent states of South Asia were finding it difficult, if not impossible, to move away from the proscenium arch” theatre introduced by the western ...

It was in such an uncertain and unimaginable situation that the Ven. Bopitiye Dammissara Thera Chairman of the United National Party (UNP) Bhikku Peramuna had gone with some other Buddhist monks of ...