Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka have urged the British government to help protect the ancient Buddhist relics that descendants of ...

COLOMBO: The rare exposition of the sacred tooth relic of Lord Buddha has been concluded in Sri Lanka's central town of Kandy ...

The large-scale exposition of the sacred tooth relic of Lord Buddha concluded in Kandy, Sri Lanka, attracting hundreds of ...

Occupying a small granite hill guarded by a vast Golden Buddha, each astonishing cavern (Cave 2 is enormous) exhibits a unique collection of ornate Buddhist statues and shrines beneath still-vibrant ...

Ganagaramaya Temple, one of the oldest temples in Colombo which Prime Minister Narendra Modi has visited on trips to Sri ...

Some Buddha statues on display are bald but others, intriguingly, have thick curls. Sri Lanka was part of the Silk Road maritime trade route and known to the ancient Greeks as Taprobane.

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