This year’s AIA Poson Safety Programme deployed more lifesavers, numbering 720, working together with the Sri Lanka Police, Lifesaving Association of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka Navy and Civil Security ...

President Ranil Wickremesinghe has instructed the District Secretaries of Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa to make arrangements to celebrate Poson on a grand scale. He had told the District Secretaries to ...

It is as if there is an unbreakable relationship between the completion of the moon, the completion of spirituality and the completion of the good mood. This passion must be brought near to heaven at ...

Commemorating the introduction of Buddhism to Sri Lanka by Arahant Mahinda, SLIIT Virtual Poson Zone was launched on 14th June 2022, Poson Full Moon Poya Day. For Buddhists, this hallowed day of Poson ...

Marking the day that Arahat Mahinda converted Sri Lanka’s king Devanampiyatissa to Buddhism, Poson is celebrated with almsgiving, Buddha pooja, aloka pooja and observation of sil. Colombo also ...

The Catholic community in Anuradhapura is participating in the celebrations of Poson, which marks the dawn of Buddhism in Sri Lanka. Parish churches are decorated in typical lanterns; young people ...

The Chief Incumbent of Mihintale Rajamaha Viharaya, Ven. Walawahengunawewa Dhammarathana Thero, expressed his appreciation to the government for its decision to hold the Poson Festival 2025 with full ...

A Buddhist devotee lights up the oil lamps to celebrate Poson Poya Day in Ratnapura, Sri Lanka, June 10, 2025. Poson Poya Day marks the arrival of Buddhism in Sri Lanka. (Photo by Thilina ...

Unlike Vesak, Poson is specific to Sri Lanka and India. It celebrates the coming of Buddhism to the island through an embassy of five monks, one samanera, and one layman, led by Mahinda Thera, the son ...

The country’s religious minorities hope that as an invitation to national harmony the Buddhist feast day can be an occasion for dialogue and mutual understanding among different ethnic groups and ...

EXT to Vesak, which celebrates the Birth, Enlightenment and the Passing Away of Gautama, the Buddha, the Poson Poya day is the second most important day in the Buddhist calendar for Sri Lankan ...