Buddhist nuns in Sri Lanka have won the right to obtain national identity cards bearing their cherished title ‘Bhikkhuni' (nun), following a decade-long legal battle. On June 17, the Supreme Court ...

Sister Subhashini Samarathunga, a Holy Family Convent nun, was busy serving herbal drinks to pilgrims passing by St. Joseph’s Cathedral in Anuradhapura in Sri Lanka’s North Central Province on June 28 ...

COLOMBO — Fifty couples from China tied the knot in the Sri Lankan capital on Sunday in a mass wedding ceremony, conducted in the island’s Buddhist traditions, as the island aims to woo more ...

Colombo (AsiaNews) - The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka has taken a historic decision, officially recognising the right of Buddhist nuns to be identified on their national identity cards as ...

Sri Lanka is home to two orders of Theravāda Buddhist nuns: an order of fully ordained nuns (bhikkhunī), revived in the late 1990s, and an alternative female renunciant order of “ten-precept mothers” ...

A Buddhist delegation arrived in Sri Lanka today (28) to formally inform the President of Sri Lanka and the Government regarding the 2026 International Vesak Celebration to be held in Texas, United ...

Fifty couples from China tied the knot in the Sri Lankan capital on Sunday in a mass wedding ceremony, conducted in the island's Buddhist traditions, as the island aims to woo more tourists.