Add to ORKGFormer Sri Lankan Ambassador to the UN Dayan Jayatilake insists that the government is not taking concrete measures to curb the activities of extremist Sinhalese Buddhists in the country. "Everybody talks about the role of the Buddhist clergy in mobilising the mobs. And yet I don't see sufficient robust efforts being made by the government or even voicing critique of such organisations as the BBS. Rioters and looters have been rounded up but nobody really knows how the investigations are proc..
The Sinhala Buddhist group Bodu Bala Sena (BBS, "Forces of Buddhist Power") continued to promote vie...
Leading up to the February meeting were attacks on Islamic seminaries and mosques in the Sinhala-maj...
Buddhists of Lanka need a worldview and sense of self that is not devastated by the likes of Kalinga...
There's growing tension between hardline buddhists and Muslims and Christians. A group of Buddhist o...
Radical Buddhist mobilization in post-war Sri Lanka is taking place in an international context wher...
Everything in this man’s disposition radiates the peaceable philosophy so widely associated with gen...
"No matter who wins in January, the message is unmistakable: To be truly considered Sri Lankan these...
Through campaigns of terror, the BBS and their militant followers have looted, burned and defiled re...
According to Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu, director of the Centre for Policy Alternatives and co-conven...
"Today, that certain segments of the media and some Buddhist clerics are spawning the thought that I...
This article argues that it is not Buddhism, per se, but rather Buddhist extremism, that is responsi...
Analysts say radical Buddhism is just one sign of human rights being sidelined in Sri Lanka. With th...
The marauding Buddhist monks, who appear to be tied to a long political leash, have run out of contr...
Anti-Muslim sentiments in Sri Lanka can be attributed to the spread of ultranationalist Buddhist rhe...
Against the backdrop of the ongoing Rohingya crisis, this book takes a close and detailed look at th...
The Sinhala Buddhist group Bodu Bala Sena (BBS, "Forces of Buddhist Power") continued to promote vie...
Leading up to the February meeting were attacks on Islamic seminaries and mosques in the Sinhala-maj...
Buddhists of Lanka need a worldview and sense of self that is not devastated by the likes of Kalinga...
There's growing tension between hardline buddhists and Muslims and Christians. A group of Buddhist o...
Radical Buddhist mobilization in post-war Sri Lanka is taking place in an international context wher...
Everything in this man’s disposition radiates the peaceable philosophy so widely associated with gen...
"No matter who wins in January, the message is unmistakable: To be truly considered Sri Lankan these...
Through campaigns of terror, the BBS and their militant followers have looted, burned and defiled re...
According to Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu, director of the Centre for Policy Alternatives and co-conven...
"Today, that certain segments of the media and some Buddhist clerics are spawning the thought that I...
This article argues that it is not Buddhism, per se, but rather Buddhist extremism, that is responsi...
Analysts say radical Buddhism is just one sign of human rights being sidelined in Sri Lanka. With th...
The marauding Buddhist monks, who appear to be tied to a long political leash, have run out of contr...
Anti-Muslim sentiments in Sri Lanka can be attributed to the spread of ultranationalist Buddhist rhe...
Against the backdrop of the ongoing Rohingya crisis, this book takes a close and detailed look at th...
The Sinhala Buddhist group Bodu Bala Sena (BBS, "Forces of Buddhist Power") continued to promote vie...
Leading up to the February meeting were attacks on Islamic seminaries and mosques in the Sinhala-maj...
Buddhists of Lanka need a worldview and sense of self that is not devastated by the likes of Kalinga...