COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — It was time to reclaim the holiday. To put the Buddha back into Vesak, so to speak. But as Sri Lankans prepared to celebrate Vesak, the holiday this week commemorating Buddha’s ...

The chief prelates of Sri Lanka’s Buddhist chapters have rejected a government proposal to ban corporal punishment and other forms of child abuse, saying it undermines parental and educational ...

Sri Lanka's main opposition candidate on Sunday won important backing from a top Buddhist monk campaigning to scrap the executive presidency and return the country to a parliamentary democracy. The ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) -- Government and opposition lawmakers brawled on the floor of Sri Lanka's parliament Tuesday, in a fistfight that injured two Buddhist monks. The scuffle broke out when ...

Huge crowds have gathered in Sri Lanka's city of Kandy to see a sacred Buddhist relic - Copyright AFP Ishara S. KODIKARA Huge crowds have gathered in Sri Lanka's city ...

Although Sri Lanka suffered decades of violent ethnic conflict, Sri Lankans seem to have positive attitudes toward people of other religions – despite the fact that most see religion as key to their ...