This sacred city was established around a cutting from the 'tree of enlightenment', the Buddha's fig tree, brought there in the 3rd century B.C. by Sanghamitta, the founder of an order of Buddhist ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday visited the Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi temple in the historic city of Anuradhapura in Sri ...

On the third and final day of his Sri Lanka visit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi reached the Sri Lanka Air Force base in the ...

This sacred city was established around a cutting from the 'tree of enlightenment', the Buddha's fig tree, brought there in the 3rd century B.C. by Sanghamitta, the founder of an order of Buddhist ...

At a time when the treasured city was in a state of neglect, he led the movement to restore it to its past glory. Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka’s first capital from 4th century B.C to 10th century A.D, was ...