Nippon Paint has donated the paint required to paint the tallest Buddha statue in Sri Lanka. Built by the Methsaviya Sansadaya, it is located at the Mahiyangana Purana Rajamaha Viharaya. “History ...

"Sri Lanka prevented American rap star Akon from visiting in 2010 over one of his music videos, which featured scantily clad women dancing in front of a Buddha statue." Sponsor Message About 70 ...

Events in the eastern port city of Trincomalee in Sri Lanka in recent weeks have heightened ... The immediate trigger was the erection of a statue of Buddha in the town centre under cover of ...

COLOMBO, Aug. 23 (Xinhua)— China’s White Horse Temple donated a Buddha statue to Sri Lanka, on Thursday (22) at Dharmayathanaya Temple in Colombo. The chief incumbent of Dharmayathanaya Temple Ven.

New Delhi: Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena presented to the country a Buddha statue donated by the White Horse Temple in China to Sri Lanka. The handing over ceremony was held at the ...

Sri Lanka's largest and best-preserved cave network. Thought to date back to the first century BC, this cave monastery is a sacred pilgrimage site with five caves and 157 statues of the Buddha.

Officials from the predominantly Buddhist nation of Sri Lanka deported a British tourist Thursday for having a tattoo of Buddha on her arm. Naomi Coleman, a 37-year-old practicing Buddhist, was ...

The Sri Lankan government has refused Akon ... video in which he frolics with bikini-wearing girls near a statue of the Buddha. The clip in question, David Guetta’s “Sexy Chick,” offers ...

Three French tourists were convicted in a Sri Lankan court after taking pictures of themselves in which they pretended to kiss a Buddhist statue. The BBC reports that the three tourists, two women ...

COLOMBO, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) -- China's White Horse Temple donated a Buddha statue to Sri Lanka on Thursday's handover ceremony at Dharmayathanaya Temple in Colombo. The chief incumbent of ...