The Cholas, as historian Daud Ali writes in his book ... but the Sri Lankan appropriation of Vishnu certainly was. To this day, though controversial, Vishnu in Sri Lanka is a future Buddha ...

Mahanama, the author of the Mahavamsa refers to three visits by the Buddha to Sri Lanka. Is this historically correct? Did the Buddha ever visit Sri Lanka? To ascertain whether the description in the ...

"But the Buddhist Affairs Department refused to issue me an identity card." Her tears are unsurprising. After all, an identity card is key to life in Sri Lanka ... Buddha's daughters born on ...

It was on the Poson full moon day in June 306 B.C. (i.e. 237 years after the demise of the Buddha), that Arhat Mahinda formally introduced Buddhism including the Tripitaka to Sri Lanka. According to ...

Dr K Siri Sumedh Thero, president of the Sri Lanka International Buddhist ... Thero also mentioned that the next Buddha (Bodhisattva) will be born in Kashi, and at that time, Kashi will be known ...