Kalutara near Colombo is a bustling city and home to one of the most sacred sites on Sri Lanka’s Buddhist trail ...

Ven. K Medhankara Thero, a prominent Buddhist monk expressed his happiness over Prime Minister Narendra Modi's second visit to the Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi temple in Sri Lanka's Anuradhapura ...

where he offered prayers at the revered Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi tree. He was accompanied by Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake during the spi Read More ...

Posting pictures of the Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi tree, Modi wrote on X, “It is a living symbol of peace, enlightenment and spiritual continuity. May the teachings of Lord Buddha always guide us.” The Jaya ...

visited the sacred Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi temple in Anuradhapura and offered prayers at the revered Mahabodhi tree. The tree is believed to have grown from the Bo sapling that was brought to Sri ...

Propped up with gold-plated stakes, the 2,300-year-old Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi Tree is believed to have sprouted from a cutting of the mother tree which sheltered the Buddha as he attained enlightenment.

Modi offered flowers to the Sri Maha Bodhi, an object of worship and a symbol of sovereignty for the Buddhist-majority island, in the pilgrim city of Anuradhapura. The tightly-guarded fig tree is ...

Prime Minister Modi visited the Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi temple in the historic city of Anuradhapura and paid respects at the revered Buddhist shrine. The sacred Bodhi tree at the temple is believed to ...

visited the sacred Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi temple in Anuradhapura and offered prayers at the revered Mahabodhi tree. The tree is believed to have grown from the Bo sapling that was brought to Sri Lanka by ...

Subsequently, the President paid homage at the Sri Maha Bodhi sapling on the temple grounds ... Later the President planted a sapling of the sacred Sal tree within the temple premises, and observed ...