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 ...

Why are certain government MPs ashamed that Article 9 of the Constitution states, ‘The Republic of Sri Lanka shall give to Buddhism the foremost place, and accordingly it shall be the duty of the ...

COLOMBO, Sri LankaCOLOMBO, Sri Lanka — R&B star Akon has postponed a planned concert in Sri Lanka following angry protests over a music video he is in where scantily clad women dance in front of a ...

Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court has banned the import of bathing suits with images of Buddha after a monk saw bikinis bearing the symbol in an advertisement. The Buddhist monk, Kusaladhamma Thera, ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) — Sri Lankan authorities will deport a British tourist for having an image of Buddha tattooed on her arm, an official said Wednesday. Police spokesman Ajith Rohana said Naomi ...

NEW DELHI (RNS) India plans to lend rare fragments of the Buddha’s bones to Sri Lanka for the 2600th anniversary of Buddha’s Enlightenment in May, and some see it as part of India’s strategy to gain a ...

Gautama Buddha visited Lanka for the second occasion five years after the Enlightenment and four years and three months after His first visit to Lanka to settle a dispute between Yakkhas and Nagas.

The island nation of Sri Lanka has ordered the deportation of a British tourist for arriving in the country sporting a Buddha tattooed on her arm. Authorities say the ink shows disrespect for ...

Sri Lanka has detained a female British tourist for having a Buddha tattoo on her right arm and ordered her deportation, police said Tuesday. The unidentified woman was arrested at the country's main ...

In a significant spiritual gesture, Lord Buddha’s sacred Kapilawasthu relics, earlier housed at the RajaGuru Sri Subuthi Waskaduwa Maha Viharaya in Sri Lanka, were offered to the Dalai Lama on ...

Sri Lanka on Thursday deported a British tourist for having a tattoo of Buddha on her arm which a court said was an insult to the island’s main religion. Legally, there is no ban on a Buddha tattoo in ...