NEWS: Buddhist Culture in Sustainable Development: Sri Lanka Works

Asian Pages;  April 30, 1994 ;   Patrick Mendis;   787 words ......Buddhist Culture in Sustainable Development. Sri Lanka Works with the UN to Preserve its National...more than 2,535 years, is still intact in Sri Lanka. The legacy of Buddhist teachings furthermore...shaping modern-day development policies in Sri Lanka. Of 17 million ...

Monks pray, butchers hang up knives as Sri Lanka honors tsunami victims

AP Worldstream;  December 26, 2005 ;   KRISHAN FRANCIS, Associated Press Writer;   486 words ......than 31,000 who died in Sri Lanka, the disaster's second-highe...the Sea _ in Peraliya. Buddhist monks prepared for religious...Marketer's Society. Sri Lanka's Buddhist traditions...of tensions between Sri Lanka's government and Tamil...international agencies praised ...

Buddhist monks demand anti-conversion bill in Sri Lanka

AP Worldstream;  December 29, 2003 ;     325 words ......12-29-2003 Dateline: COLOMBO, Sri Lanka Dozens of saffron-robed Buddhist monks protested Monday against...Christians, and demanded Sri Lanka immediately introduce legislation...inspector general of police. Sri Lanka's Hindu Religious Affairs...to spread Christianity in ...

Mourning Buddhist monks protest during England-Sri Lanka match

AP Worldstream;  December 18, 2003 ;     288 words ......12-18-2003 Dateline: COLOMBO, Sri Lanka About 30 Buddhist monks demonstrated Thursday at...test between England and Sri Lanka in protest against playing...match between England and Sri Lanka began at the Sinhalese Sports...ground in Colombo Thursday. Sri ...

Monks, high priests warn Sri Lanka president against making aid deal with...

AP Worldstream;  June 9, 2005 ;   SHIMALI SENANAYAKE, Associated Press Writer;   598 words ......06-09-2005 Dateline: COLOMBO, Sri Lanka A group of powerful Buddhist monks and high priests stepped up pressure on Sri Lanka's president Thursday to withdraw...surrounded by saffron-robed Buddhist monks chanting blessings near the...

Sri Lanka's influential Buddhist monks talk battle not harmony

AP Worldstream;  November 14, 2003 ;   TIM SULLIVAN, Associated Press Writer;   787 words ......Dateline: COLOMBO, Sri Lanka In the midday...group, dismisses Sri Lanka's peace process...he said. As Sri Lanka seeks a way out...country's 30,000 Buddhist monks have emerged as...For centuries, Sri Lanka's Buddhist clerics have seen...a fraction of ...

Sri Lanka's state radio stops cricket broadcast to honor dead Buddhist...

AP Worldstream;  December 20, 2003 ;     264 words ...AP Worldstream 12-20-2003 Dateline: COLOMBO, Sri Lanka Sri Lanka's state-owned radio station has stopped live commentaries...the ongoing third cricket test between England and Sri Lanka at the request by Buddhist monks mourning the death of a prominent cleric. An official ...

Once royal advisers, Sri Lanka's Buddhist monks now want to be political...

AP Worldstream;  April 1, 2004 ;   SHIMALI SENANAYAKE, Associated Press Writer;   717 words ......Dateline: COLOMBO, Sri Lanka There's a life of...Traditionally, Sri Lanka's Buddhists monks...divided between Sri Lanka's two main parties...in agreement with Buddhist principles," Rathana...Today, while many of Sri Lanka's 30,000 Buddhist monks ...

RELIGION-SRI LANKA: BUDDHIST TEMPLES GO DOWN DEVELOPMENT PATH

Inter Press Service English News Wire;  August 8, 2003 ;   Kalinga Seneviratne;   787 words ...00-00-0000 EMBILIPITIYA, Sri Lanka, Aug. 8 (IPS/GIN) -- Dynamic Buddhist monks and progressive...town in southern Sri Lanka that provides services...growing number of Buddhist monks who are driving...caste system in Sri Lanka gathered...Traditionally the ...

Sri Lanka backs away from devolution.(Brief Article)

The Economist (US);  August 12, 2000 ;     450 words ......Now Chandrika Kumaratunga, Sri Lanka's president, faces an uncertain...The bill would have given Sri Lanka a federal system of government...including street protests led by Buddhist monks, she came to realise that...to be elected by seven of Sri Lanka's nine provinces. ...

POLITICS-SRI LANKA: TOP PEACE-BUILDER PLANS AMBITIOUS PEACE MARCH

Inter Press Service English News Wire;  September 6, 1999 ;     787 words ......Tudor Ariyaratne, Sri Lanka's best-known peace...founder in 1958 of Sri Lanka's biggest grassroots...guerrilla country (in Sri Lanka's north) and meditate...peace gathering in Sri Lanka -- in a Colombo...meditate for peace. Buddhist monks, Muslim, ...

Amid political crisis and decades of war, Sri Lanka's Buddhist monks wade...

AP Worldstream;  November 14, 2003 ;   TIM SULLIVAN, Associated Press Writer;   787 words ......Dateline: COLOMBO, Sri Lanka In a monastery...his points. "As Buddhist monks, we always hope...organizations, dismisses Sri Lanka's peace process...s 30,000 or so Buddhist monks have emerged as...about 74 percent of Sri Lanka's 18.6 million people, are ...

Buddhist monks hospitalized after brawl in Sri Lanka's Parliament

AP Worldstream;  June 8, 2004 ;     314 words ......06-08-2004 Dateline: COLOMBO, Sri Lanka Two Buddhist monks were hospitalized Tuesday...an unprecedented brawl in Sri Lanka's Parliament, officials said...oath. About 70 percent of Sri Lanka's 19 million people are Buddhists...Tamil Tiger rebels, who back Sri ...

Sri Lanka's powerful Buddhist monks want Norwegian ambassador to leave

AP Worldstream;  March 5, 2002 ;   DILIP GANGULY, Associated Press Writer;   382 words ...00-00-0000 Dateline: COLOMBO, Sri Lanka About 200 monks from Sri Lanka's powerful Buddhist clergy marched to the Norwegian Embassy on Tuesday...a letter asking Ambassador John Westborg to leave Sri Lanka. A cease-fire agreement, brokered by Norway, was...affairs. Westborg was not ...

India set to aid Tamils in defiance of Sri Lanka

Chicago Sun-Times;  June 3, 1987 ;     359 words ...COLOMBO, Sri Lanka India was expected today...flotilla for Tamils in Sri Lanka despite Sri Lankan threats...ambushed a bus in eastern Sri Lanka and killed 29 Buddhist monks and four other passengers...government said Tuesday. Sri Lanka asserts that the ...