Sri Lankan police have removed an “unauthorized” Buddha statue near a prominent temple in the eastern district of Trincomalee, triggering angry reactions from hardline monks and raising fears of ...

Events in the eastern port city of Trincomalee in Sri Lanka in recent weeks have heightened communal tensions throughout the country, as well as the danger of a return to civil war. The immediate ...

A group of Buddhist monks, with the support of a few Sinhalese residents in the area, sought to illegally erect a shrine with a Buddha statue on November 16, at the beachfront on Fort Road in ...

More than two thousand years ago, the Buddha was asked by his chief disciple whether he could erect a statue of the Buddha for the benefit of those who came to worship him in his absence from the ...

In Sri Lanka, where engineered ‘community tensions’ can erupt out of the blue, so to speak and as suddenly subside, it was no surprise to see that, just two days after the so-called ‘unrest’ in ...