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	Henry Steel Olcott - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Colonel Henry Steel Olcott (1832-1907), founder and first president of the Theosophical Society, is well-known as the first prominent person of Western descent to make a formal conversion to Buddhism.
		Olcott was agricultural editor of the New York Tribune (1858–60), and sometimes submitted newspapers articles on various other subjects.
		Blavatsky eventually went to live in London where she died, but Henry stayed in India and pursued the work of the society there.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_Steel_Olcott (410 words)

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		Olcott was anxious to visit the homeland of his guru and of the philosophy he revered, and he idealized both the land and its people.
		Olcott's primary objectives in India were to disseminate Asian philosophy to the West by encouraging accurate translations of texts by native scholars and to revive Oriental spiritual traditions -- principally Hinduism, Buddhism, and Zoroastrianism -- suffering under the onslaught of Western materialistic education and Christian missionary propaganda as well as military, economic, and political subjugation.
		Olcott did not understand the need for this -- indeed, if he had understood, there would not have been the need -- and he was hostile to many of her moves, seeing her as a disorganizing force and her teachings as an unacceptably sectarian factor.
	www.theosociety.org /pasadena/sunrise/46-96-7/th-sbdo.htm (2229 words)

	Henry Steel Olcott (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Henry Steel Olcott was born on August 2, 1832, in Orange, New Jersey.
		In 1875, together with H. Blavatsky and William Q. Judge, Olcott co-founded The Theosophical Society, and remained President-Founder for life.
		Olcott is especially noted for his work among the Buddhists of Sri Lanka, Burma, and Japan, helping them realize the essential value of their own heritage.
	www.theosociety.org /pasadena/ts/bio-hso.htm (154 words)

	Henry Steel Olcott and the Sinhalese Buddhist Revival Part 1
		Olcott’s presumption was that the Buddhist laity of Sri Lanka were ignorant of their own great religion.
		Insofar as Olcott used French and English translations of texts and expositions of Buddhist doctrine, it was inevitable that the Catechism should be oriented to a Western intellectualist view of Buddhism.
		Olcott noted that the missions “taught that Buddhism was a dark superstition” and that the few government schools that existed did not teach the religion at all.
	aryasangha.org /obeye-1.htm (1834 words)

	Henry Steel Olcott and the Sinhalese Buddhist Revival
		Olcott remained disturbed by what he perceived as the shocking ignorance of the Sinhalese about Buddhism.” This was an odd sort of judgment for a recent convert who had purportedly come to Asia not to teach but to learn.
		OLCOTT SOLIDIFIED HIS ROLE as a leader of the Sinhalese Buddhist Revival in the wake of a tragic Buddhist-Christian riot that occurred on March 25, 1883, in Kotahena, a Catholic stronghold of Colombo.
		Olcott’s Sinhalese supporters concluded that the British proclamation of Wesak as a public holiday was “primarily due to Colonel Olcott’s appeal,” and on April 28, 1885, during the first government-recognized celebration of the Buddha’s birthday’, the now-venerable name of Olcott was invoked frequently and with great devotion.
	aryasangha.org /olcott-prothero.htm (2588 words)

	Henry Steel Olcott - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Henry Steel Olcott (1832-1907), founder and first president of the Theosophical Society, is well-known as the first prominent person of Western descent to make a formal conversion to Buddhism.
		Henry Olcott was a lawyer and journalist who covered the Spiritualist movement.
		In 1874 while writing a series of articles on the seances of the Eddy brothers of Chittenden, Vermont he met Helena Blavatsky when both visited the Eddy farm.
	www.northmiami.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Henry_Steele_Olcott (336 words)

	H S Olcott biography
		Olcott continued his law practice by day, helping Blavatsky with "Isis Unveiled" late into the night whenever they were not busy entertaining visitors.
		Olcott continued to work in Asia believing that "the proper work of the Founders of the Society is rather that of organization than research".
		Olcott did not understand the need for this renewed involvement by Madame Blavatsky and was hostile to many of her moves.
	www.age-of-the-sage.org /theosophy/h_s_olcott.html (806 words)

	Hoasen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Nh¶ nhæng thành tích này, Olcott và Blavatsky ðã lßu lÕi Tích Lan danh hi®u nhß là nhæng v¸ anh hùng dân tµc.
		Nhßng ði«u quan tr÷ng h½n t¤t cä là Olcott và Blavatsky ðßþc h¥u hªt Ph§t tØ Tích Lan kính tr÷ng và biªt ½n.
		Olcott cüng c¯ vai trò cüa mình nhß mµt nhà lãnh ðÕo phong trào phøc hßng PG tÕi Tích Lan theo sau cuµc xung ðµt bi thäm giæa PG và Ky Tô giáo xäy ra vào ngày 25 tháng 3 nåm 1883 · Kotahela, mµt vùng cüa ngß¶i Ky Tô giáo.
	www.saigon.com /~hoasen/olcott.htm (2191 words)

	The Buddhist Channel \| News - Asia \| Col. Henry Steel Olcott's house to be preserved
		Olcott, an American national, came to Sri Lanka after reading about the debate on Buddhism and Christianity, which is known as "Panadura Vadaya".
		It is said that Olcott was very much impressed by the debate and came to Galle and from there to other parts of the country, patronizing the spread of Buddhism.
		Olcott, an attorney and philosopher, was born on August 2, 1832, in Orange, New Jersey, USA, and died at the age of 75 on February 17, 1907, in Adyar, Madras, India.
	www.buddhistchannel.tv /index.php?id=1,839,0,0,1,0 (176 words)

	Journal of Buddhist Ethics
		As a team, Olcott was the organizing genius obsessed with order, whereas Blavatsky was the thinker, creating in effect a new religion for intellectuals, combining in a crazy and brilliant fashion ideas from the hermetic philosophy of the West, ancient near Eastern myth and mystery religions, and (after 1875) employing Indian thought and Vajrayāna Buddhism.
		Olcott's own skills as a white American were successful when he acted as an emissary for Buddhist monks and persuaded the British authorities in London to make Vesak (the birthday of the Buddha) a national holiday.
		Olcott's role was to bring Asian wisdom within the frame of a rationalizing science, itself an indispensable component of modernity.
	jbe.gold.ac.uk /4/obey1.html (2334 words)

	article_Chandra_Jayaratne
		Olcott’s primary objectives in India were to disseminate Asian philosophy to the West, by encouraging accurate translations of texts by native scholars and to revive Oriental spiritual traditions -- principally Hinduism, Buddhism and Zoroastrianism - suffering under the onslaught of Western materialistic education and Christian missionary propagandas well as military, economic, and political subjugation.
		Henry Steel Olcott is thus indeed then a man for veneration and remembrance on this occasion.
		The life and work of Henry Steel Olcott revolved around the quest for new knowledge, seeking universal truth unbiased by the past, developing a vision, commitment in pursuit of the vision and drawing a freeway of community support behind the vision.
	www.geocities.com /anandaaustralia/article_Chandra_Jayaratne.html (3904 words)

	Photography Studio as Seance Room
		Henry Jotham Newton (1823-1895), a New York inventor who had made a fortune in piano manufacturing, turned to photography as a hobby, and in the late 1860s and early 1870s made some important discoveries in photographic chemistry, which allowed the widespread use of the dry-plate process, a revolutionary development in the history of photography.
		Henry J. Newton, the President of the New York Society of Spiritualists, is one of the most prominent, as well as earnest workers in the cause of spiritualism.
		Henry Newton’s efforts to develop and disseminate the dry-plate process—a revolutionary process for which Newton would become known as the “father of dry-plate photography in America,” were taking place at precisely the same time that he was working with Henry Slade, looking for ways to register spirits on his photographic plates.
	www.spirithistory.com /phtsnc.html (2690 words)

	Roshi Hogen Berman
		With Henry Steele Olcott she was a co-founder of the Theosophical Society of America.
		With Olcott, she was instrumental in establishing Adyar, an estate in Madras, India, as the International Headquarters of the Theosophical Society and for working for the cultural and religious freedom of the people of India and Sri Lanka.
		Henry Olcott laid the foundation and assisted in formulating the vehicle (The Indian National Congress), which later led by Mahatma Ghandi and Nehru in India and the Venerable Dharmapale in Sri Lanka, brought independence to both of these countries.
	www.network54.com /Forum/message?forumid=25467&messageid=996878205 (580 words)

	The White Buddhist: The Asian Odyssey of Henry Steel Olcott
		Prothero has three specific purposes: first, he presents a "sympathetic yet scholarly" interpretation of Olcott's life; second, he uses that life as "an opportunity to interpret the broader nineteenth-century American encounter with the religions of Asia"; and third, he introduces the linguistic term "creolization" as a means of understanding cultural and religious interactions.
		This is perhaps nowhere more true than in Olcott's activities in Sri Lanka, where he at once embraced Buddhism and at the same time lashed out at some of the leading monks on the island, charging them with practicing a corrupt, adulterated form of Buddhism that went counter to the original teachings of the Buddha.
		He argues that Olcott was not, in fact, so much a cultural pluralist as a kind of unwitting hegemonist; in Olcott's creole religious language, the grammar of Protestant Christianity had a tendency to run roughshod over the lexicon of Theravada Buddhism.
	ccbs.ntu.edu.tw /FULLTEXT/JR-EPT/jacob.htm (705 words)

	Theosophical Society in America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Henry Steel Olcott was a lawyer who served his country during the American Civil War as an inspector, ferreting out fraud in the procurement of supplies (and is therefore often called "Colonel Olcott").
		Olcott had a varied career, for example publishing a seminal work on the cultivation of sugar-producing plants and editing a history of America.
		Olcott therefore went to Vermont to write a story on those phenomena, and there he met HPB, who had also come to witness the happenings and to meet Olcott.
	www.theosophical.org /intro/chap2/Index.html (585 words)

	OLCOTT Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Henry Steel Olcott (H S Olcott) was born on August 2, 1832 in Orange, New Jersey the first of an eventual family of six children.
		In the wake of the stresses associated with the fraud charges Madame Blavatsky resigned as Corresponding Secretary and left for Europe in March 1885 to regain her health and write "The Secret Doctrine".
		After Blavatsky's death, Olcott (President-Founder), William Q. Judge (Vice-President and co-head of the Esoteric Section), and Annie Besant (President of the Blavatsky Lodge, London, and co-head of the Esoteric Section) were the leading officials.
	kingsgarden.org /English/organizations/TS.GB/Olcott/OlcottBiography.htm (797 words)

	Olcott, Henry Steel -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Olcott was agricultural editor of the New York Tribune (1858–60), and with the rank of colonel he was special commissioner in the U.S. War and Navy departments (1863–66).
		U.S. trade association of basic iron and steel manufacturers and allied businesses; conducts research and compiles statistics on manufacturing technology and materials, environmental quality control, and energy and fuel consumption; founded in 1908 to organize members who operate steel mills and iron ore mines and whose products include pig iron, steel ingots, pipes and...
		Henry Wriothesley, to whom Shakespeare dedicated two poems, was one of the writer's first patrons.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9056961?tocId=9056961 (847 words)

	The White Buddhist: The Asian Odyssey of Henry Steel Olcott:0253330149:Prothero, Stephen:eCampus.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He was Colonel Henry Steel Olcott (1832 - 1907), friend to Madame Blavatsky and president-founder of the Theosophical Society.
		Despite his repudiation of Christianity, Olcott's life was an extension of both the "errand to the wilderness" of his Puritan ancestors and the "errand to the world" of American Protestant missionaries.
		Olcott viewed himself as a defender of Asian religions against the missionaries, but his actions mirrored theirs.
	www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=0253330149 (236 words)

	Online edition of Daily News - Features
		Both Colonel Henry Steele Olcott and Madame Helena Patrovna Blavetsky arrived at Galle harbour in 1880 and reached Sailabimbaramaya Temple at Dodanduwa.
		Both Colonel Henry Steel Olcott and Madame H.P. Blavetsky the Founders of Theosophical Society in America, realising the marginalisation of the Buddhists and the challenges caused to Buddhist Education in Sri Lanka were very eager to meet their friendly Buddhist Monk Ven.
		Colonel Henry Steele Olcott paid special attention to improve the first Buddhist school at Dodanduwa and he donated several equipments to the laboratory.
	www.dailynews.lk /2004/10/13/fea04.html (2666 words)

	The American Buddhist Lineage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Olcott reformed Buddhism in Sri Lanka in the 19th century, and much of what Asians now think of as their Buddhism actually originated with this American.
		Stephen Prothero on Henry Steel Olcott's role in the Sinhalese revival in what is now Sri Lanka.
		Gananath Obeyesekere's five-part lecture series on the history of Henry Steel Olcott's involvement with the 19th Century Reform of Buddhism in Sri Lanka.
	home1.gte.net /res6zeam/american-buddhist/lineage.html (350 words)

	The Religious Movements Homepage: Theosophy
		Blavatsky met Henry Steel Olcott in Vermont in 1874, while she was investigating Spiritualist activity there, and they quickly realized they shared common views and goals.
		Although Olcott was a bit skeptical of some of the things Blavatsky said and did, he realized that she had a very powerful set of beliefs which he believed he could share with other people.
		Olcott was elected Chairman, William Q. Judge became the Secretary.
	religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu /nrms/theosophy.html (4275 words)

	The Theosophical Society-Adyar - Founders
		As reporter for New York Tribune in 1859, Olcott was present at hanging of John Brown, and though in considerable danger, extricated himself under the seal of Masonic confidence.
		A statute drafted by H.S.O. and another lawyer was passed in ten State Legislatures.
		Before leaving, H.S.O. received from U.S. President autographed letter of recommendation to all U.S. Ministers and Consuls; and from Dept. of State a special diplomatic passport, and a commission to report to Government upon the practicability of extending the commercial interests of U.S. in Asia.
	ts-adyar.org /founders.html (1885 words)

	Materialien zum Neobuddhismus: Buddhismus und theosophische Bewegung
		Olcott, Henry Steel <1832-1907>: A Buddhist catechism, according to the canon of the Southern Church / by Henry S. Olcott.
		Olcott, Henry Steel <1832-1907>: A collection of lectures on theosophy and archaic religions, delivered in India and Ceylon, by Colonel H. Olcott...
		Olcott, Henry Steel <1832-1907> ed.: Outlines of the first course of Yale agricultural lectures.
	www.payer.de /neobuddhismus/neobud0201.htm (6675 words)

	FT May 2005: Books in Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The two became “chums,” as Olcott described it, and the ex-Presbyterian quickly determined that the various spiritualisms roiling around in the West needed to be reformed.
		Indeed, Olcott saw Blavatsky’s Theosophy as a mechanism for reforming and rationalizing spiritualism, and the Theosophical Society was founded in 1875 with Olcott as president and Blavatsky as corresponding secretary.
		As Olcott expressed it in one letter, “We should respect every man’s faith.” He was attracted to Buddhism precisely for its supposed tolerance, which he believed stood in strong contrast to the strict and doctrinaire Calvinism of his own ancestors.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft0505/opinion/leithart.html (1199 words)

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