In literary, as well as in common usage in Sinhala, the word vahanse added as a suffix to a noun denotes reverence, respect, or sanctity, eg. Bodhinvahanse, Swameenvahanse. Sometimes it is used even ...

The High Commission of India in Colombo on 09 March distributed 500 copies of the Sinhala translations of five Amar Chitra Katha Jataka Tales comic books to mark the Medin Full Moon Poya Day, the ...

The term Jataka tales or Jataka stories commonly denotes the birth stories of the Buddha in previous lives. The Pansiya Panas Jataka Kataha Potha, or the book of Jataka tales, contains these ...

Prof. Kulathilaka Kumarasinghe has taken a giant step in making the Short Story known to the wider English speaking world by compiling this anthology. He was able to present few writers who ...

The Indian High Commission in Colombo distributed 500 copies of the Sinhala translations of five Amar Chitra Katha Jataka Tales comic books to coincide with Medin Full Moon Poya Day. The books were ...

Commemorating the arrival Sanghamitta Theri from India to Sri Lanka, the second volume of the Jataka Tales Audio Book in Sinhala was released at Swami Vivekananda Cultural Centre (SVCC), the cultural ...

The first is the Vidura Jataka. Here we have the story of a yaksha who wants to capture the king’s minister, Vidura While some see Mahabharata as history, others see Mahabharata as an epic born of a ...

The Ramayana story reveals the Vedic world that thrived in the Gangetic plains between 1,000 CE and 500 CE, though the story itself came to be written between 200 BCE and 200 CE. Buddhist Jataka tales ...

Accompanied by Intizar Hussain, Asif Farrukkhi reads out a tale from his Urdu translation of the Jatakas at T2F on Tuesday evening.–Photo by White Star KARACHI: Eminent writer Intizar Hussain and ...

You might remember Jataka Tales as those no-brainer childhood bedtime stories that your parents read to you so you grow up to ...