Local civil society activists and religious freedom advocates, who at other times decry the ‘Sinhala Buddhist Supremism’, are now campaigning to shut down Jewish Chabad houses in the country.

As a privileged “heteronormative Sinhala Buddhist male”, Malinda, a product of S. Thomas’ College, Mount Lavinia, critiques power dynamics in religious institutes and institutes of power. He uses art ...

An airstrike on a Buddhist monastery in Myanmar 's central Sagaing region killed at least 23 people who were taking shelter in the compound, separate sources said Friday. The overnight aerial ...

The International Buddhist Confederation and Mahabodhi Society of India will celebrate Dhammachakkappavattana Day at Sarnath. The event marks Asadha Purnima, when Lord Buddha delivered his first ...

Rest of World News: A 14th-century Buddhist statue stolen from a Japanese temple has been returned from South Korea after a lengthy legal dispute, highlighting ongoing tensions between the two ...

A 14th century Korean Buddhist statue stolen from a Japanese temple nearly 13 years ago was returned on Monday, following a years-long legal battle between Japan and South Korea over its ownership ...

The Indiana Buddhist Temple transformed into a vibrant cultural hub as Americans and Sri Lankans came together to celebrate the Sinhala and Tamil New Year in a joyful and spiritually uplifting event.

That young Tamil women, often silent and traumatised, appeared following Sinhala soldiers in Lankan ‘civil-war cinema’ of the modernists, all male, is a troubling phenomenon. A ‘Sinhala Orientalism’, ...

The tooth relic holds special spiritual, historical and cultural significance for the 74 per cent Sinhala Buddhist majority in the island nation of 21 million people.

Sri Lankan Filmmaker Sulochona Peiris talks about her latest documentary, which explores how contested religious sites incite complex ethnic tensions between Sri Lanka's Buddhist Sinhalese and Hindu ...