By Walter Jayawardhana The famous Kapilawasthu relics in a New Delhi’s Museum ƒ”š‚ will travel to Sri Lanka once again for the exposition and veneration of millions of Sri Lanka Buddhists. Excavated in a ruined stupa in India by British archeologists 113 years ago the so called Kapilawasthu relics are the portion of Buddha’s fragments of […]

By Walter Jayawardhana British and Europeanƒ”š‚ parliamentarians said in a letter to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singhe that they are deeply concerned about Tamil Nadu’s Kudankulam nuclear power plant as it is located in a an earth-quake and tsunami prone area, factors that push accidents . ƒ”š‚ The power plant , they argued ,”ƒ”š‚violates”ƒ”š‚ the International Atomic […]

By Walter Jayawardhana One of India’s famous comic book artists Bharath Murthy recently told the Hindu newspaper that he first got converted himself to be a Buddhist and now writing and drawing a comic book, “The Vanished Path”ƒ”š‚ a travelogue related to the Life of Buddha and the historic sites connected with his life. He […]

By Walter Jayawardhana 1500 years old ruins of a Buddhist temple ƒ”š‚ have been discovered in China’s largest desert, offering valuable insight for historians studying Buddhism’s spread from India to China, Xinhua news agency reported. The temple’s main hall has a rare structure based around three square-shaped corridors and a huge Buddha statue. “The hall is […]

By Walter Jayawardhana The packed audience at the Ravindra Bharathi National Theatre in Hyderabad, the capital of the state of Andra Pradesh, pledged to strive for everything that would make the dreamƒ”š‚  of a casteless society a reality on the occasion of a release of a compact disk entitled, “Buddham Saranam”ƒ”š‚ The people who gathered […]

By Walter Jayawardhana Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s secretary Lalith Weeratunga alleged India had a big hand in the mid-eighties in the planning and executing terrorist strikes in Sri Lanka while India, Britain and France made intense pressure on the President to stop the war when Sri Lanka was on the verge of defeating the […]

By Walter Jayawardhana The Dalai Lama who received 1.1 million Pounds , Templeton Prize money gave the greater portion of it to Save the Children Fund in India and the balance for science, including teaching science for young Tibetan Buddhist monks. The Templton Prize is the world’s biggest annual award a person could receive and […]

By Walter Jayawardhana A Canadian man from Malton who pleaded guilty to his role in a 2006 terror plot to supply computers and night vision glasses etc and had future plans to give them aviation equipment for Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers was set free today. Ramanan Mylvaganm, 35, was sentenced to time served when he […]

By Walter Jayawardhana Dr. B.R. Ambedkar.the greatest Buddhist modern India produced was a genius who overcame difficult situations and upheld the right of the neglected sections of society, like the so called untouchables, Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri, District in-charge Minister of Uttara Kannada, said here in Karwar in the Uttara Kannada ,India. Addressing a function to […]

By Walter Jayawardhana Going by the recommendation of the LLRC report the Sri Lanka government has decided to release the information on war detainees. According to the Ministry of Defense who said on Sunday that a decision had been made to release informationon of the detainees only to the close relatives. “A round the clock […]

By Walter Jayawardhana Indian anti- narcotic detectivesƒ”š‚  arrested four train passengers including two women and a Sri Lankan Tamil who was waiting outside in a car to receive the contraband, seizing ng more than 100 million Indian Rupees worth of heroin to be sent to Sri Lanka this Friday in Chennai. The detectives from the […]

By Walter Jayawardhana The electrocution death occurred of an Indian worker in a private steel plant of a BOI company has revealed that workers are immigrated to work in this plant under tourist visas from India and they are working under modern day conditions of slavery. A report published by the Hindu said: ƒ”š‚ After bringing […]

By Walter Jayawardhana Karunakaran Kandasamy Kandasamy, a US citizen charged for aiding the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam a terrorist group in Sri Lanka was released by the Federal Judge to time served in jail – about five years, after casting doubt on the terrorism case US District Judge Raymond Dearie who announced his sentence […]

By Walter Jayawardhana Sushma Swaraj, India’s Leader of Opposition addressing the Madurai convention of her Bharatiya Janata Party questioned why when Sri Lanka’s respected Tamil Leader R.Sampanthan says that he wanted Tamils to remain in a united SriLanka certain leaders in Tamil Nadu want to promote Tamil separatism for Sri Lanka. “When such a respected […]

By Walter Jayawardhana The Hindu and Times of India said two Sri Lankan suspects of a drug cartel carrying a large quantity of pure heroin was arrested in Chennai .The ones arrested are only couriers, investigators believed. The drugs seized is valued at Indian Rupees 3.5Crore, officials said. The heroin obtained from Central India was […]

By Walter Jayawardhana ƒ”š‚ Nitin Godkari, the National President of the Bharatiya Janata Party, the main opposition of the Indian parliament said in Madurai Tamil Nadu that he had spoken to G.L.Peiris , the Sri Lankan Foreign Minister ƒ”š‚ and had told him that addressing the issues of “killing the Tamils”ƒ”š‚ during the ethnic strife and “ƒ”¹…”attacking […]

By Walter Jayawardhana The Hindu newspaper quoted the Indian Union Minister for Labour and Employment M. Mallikarjun Kharge of having said ƒ”š‚ that Buddhism was the one religion whose foundation was laid firmly on the philosophy of equality, casteless society and the principle of non-violence. Speaking after inaugurating the 2,556th Visaka Buddha Poornima celebrations at the […]

By Walter Jayawardhana The Hindu said the Sri Lankan entry “Abinikmana”ƒ”š‚, the directorial debut of theatre personality Hector Kumarasiri at the Buddhist film festival in New Delhi was well appreciated. Kumarasiri participated when the film was shown at the Indian Council for Cultural Relations in the Indian capital. The Hindu said, “For the first time […]

by Walter Jayawardhana “Film-makers in Buddhist countries are making impactful films which give people an understanding of the philosophy and aesthetic art of Buddhism. But I am unable to understand why Indian film-makers do not explore Buddhism as a subject. So this festival will give experienced and fledgling ones a fillip to make films on […]

By Walter Jayawardhana A chemical found in turmeric an essential ingredient in curry Sri Lankans daily eat is to be tested for its ability to kill bowel cancer tumours in patients. Curcumin, which is found in the spice turmeric, has been linked to a range of health benefits. Studies have already shown that it can […]

By Walter Jayawardhana While most Asian countries are planning to exploit the occasion of 2,600 years of enlightenment of Buddha, seven Indian states having Buddhist heritage have not spent anything substantial to tap tourists from Buddhist-majority Asian tiger economies and China, during the last two decades .complained the Times of India in a signed editorial […]

By Walter Jayawardhana While protesters are once again demonstrating against the controversial Kudankulam nuclear reactor in Chennai the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Jayalalitha Jayaram said in New Delhi after the Chief Ministers conference there that the plant will commission within the next ten days. But officials working for the reactor have told the Times […]

By Walter Jayawardhana The Bangalore Mahabodhi Society is translating in parts the Pali Tripitaka into Kannada language said Bhante Ananda, the Secretary of the society in an interview conducted with the Sunday Times of India on the activities of the society in the event of the Vesak celebrations taking place in the city of Bangalore. […]

By Walter Jayawardhana The Bangalore Mahabodhi Society is translating in parts the Pali Tripitaka into Kannada language said Bhante Ananda, the Secretary of the society in an interview conducted with the Sunday Times of India on the activities of the society in the event of the Vesak celebrations taking place in the city of Bangalore. […]

By Walter Jayawardhana The Vesak moon will be closest to the earth on Sunday May 6 than it is on any other night in entire year 2012 and hence it will appear very much larger. The phenomenon, called supermoon, this year coincides with ‘Vesak”ƒ”š‚Celebrations all over the world. On May 6 at 9.05 pm, the […]

By Walter Jayawardhana Bollywood screen’s latest success story, ƒ”š‚ actress Paoli Dam coinciding with Vesak or as the Indians call it Buddha Purnima told the Times of India that the reason for her success is her religion Buddhism. In an interview she said, “I have been following this Buddhism for seven years now. Within the initial […]

A Lord Buddha statue gets a wash on the eve of Buddha Purnima in Bhopal on Saturday. PTI Photo Indians call Vesak, the Buddha Purnima as it can be easily be confused with celebration of Vaisakhi also known as Baisakhi, Vaishakhi, or Vasakhi whichƒ”š‚  is theƒ”š‚  celebration of birth of the Sikhs in the northern […]

By Walter Jayawardhana Scientists have isolated a compound in garlic that would fight with hundred times more potency than an antibiotic in combating bacteria that causes intestinal illness. The compound present in garlic, called diallyl sulphide, is capable in fighting Campylobacter bacteria which causes ƒ”š‚ the most commonest kind of abdominal disorder with diarrhea, cramping, pain, […]

By Walter Jayawardhana The Indian parliamentary delegation who visited Sri Lanka met Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and other leaders of the NewDelhi government and recommended ƒ”š‚ the 13th amendment of the Sri Lanka Constitution should be implemented. In a 45 minutes meeting they held in the Parliament House Ms Sushma Swaraj the leader of the […]

By Walter Jayawardhana The question asked often is what came first? The chicken or the egg? ƒ”š‚ For a Welimada poultry farm owner he is sure sometimes the chicken also comes first. The veterinary surgeon in Welimada in Uva province told reporters that in a freak birth one of the hens in a poultry farm there […]