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 ...

Dharmasiri, a 59-year-old police officer attached to the Anuradhapura Headquarters Police, had completed his duties and was inspecting his garden behind his house when he was bitten by a snake near a ...

President Mahinda Rajapaksa handed over a sapling of the Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi in Anuradhapura to the General Secretary of the Maha Bodhi Society, Ven. Dr. D. Rewatha Thera on February 14 at Temple ...

(Xinhua/Wu Yue) COLOMBO, March 15 (Xinhua) -- In Anuradhapura, a central Sri Lankan city, for Bandara Abeysinghe, how mango ...

Some ruins of Anuradhapura include the Sri Maha bodhiya or temple (the bodhi tree, sacred to Buddhists, at the Sri Maha bodhiya is specially protected), Abhayagiri Dagaba, Isurumuniya, Jetavanarama, ...

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 ...

COLOMBO, March 15 (Xinhua) -- In Anuradhapura, a central Sri Lankan city, for Bandara Abeysinghe, how mango trees yield abundant fruits is a question. Abeysinghe is a local agricultural instructor ...