Colonel Henry Steel Olcott (2 August 1832 – 17 February 1907) was an American military officer, journalist, lawyer, Freemason (member of Huguenot Lodge...
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Helena Blavatsky (section Meeting Henry Steel Olcott and the foundation of the Theosophical Society)
the dead. Relocating to the United States in 1873, she befriended Henry Steel Olcott and rose to public attention as a spirit medium, attention that included...
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Russian mystic and the principal thinker of the Theosophy movement, and Henry Steel Olcott, the society's first president. It draws upon a wide array of influences...
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age, he also received a very good English education. In 1879 he met Henry Steel Olcott and H. P. Blavatsky in Bombay, after they had just established the...
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Judge. In 1882, its headquarters moved with Blavatsky and president Henry Steel Olcott from New York to Adyar, an area of Chennai, India. The US National...
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pioneer in the revival of Buddhism in Bengal and India Along with Henry Steel Olcott and Helena Blavatsky, the creators of the Theosophical Society, he...
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Ananda College (section Olcott oration)
Colombo. It was established as the English Buddhist School by Colonel Henry Steel Olcott in 1886. In the present day, it provides primary and secondary education...
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was largely the creation of two individuals: Helena Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott. Established Christianity in the United States was experiencing challenges...
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1 March 1892 by the Buddhist Theosophical Society led by Colonel Henry Steel Olcott. As of today it is a national school which provides primary and secondary...
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Westerners to formally convert to Buddhism, such as Helena Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott. An important event in the introduction of Buddhism to the West was...
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theosophists like Helena Blavatsky, Helena Roerich and Henry Steel Olcott also became Buddhists. Henry Steel Olcott helped shape the design of the Buddhist flag...
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the modern Adyar organization). The corresponding faction led by Henry Steel Olcott and Annie Besant, whose organization, based in India, is known today...
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with the Theosophical Society. During 1885, Leadbeater traveled with Henry Steel Olcott (1832–1907), first President of the Theosophical Society, to Burma...
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Moon Olcott (surname) Henry Steel Olcott Justice Olcott (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Olcott. If an...
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particular individuals. In 1882, he invited Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott to Madras (now Chennai), where he convinced them to make Adyar the...
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and remained there for six weeks..." In 1880 Helena Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott visited the Sinnetts at their summer home in Simla. The Mahatma Letters...
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Society. When two of the founders of that society, Helena Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott, moved to India at the end of that year, he was constituted as the...
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into an independent organisation. The original society, then led by Henry Steel Olcott and Besant, is today based in Chennai, India, and is known as the...
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self-transformation. Russian expatriate Helena Blavatsky and American Colonel Henry Steel Olcott founded the Theosophical Society with attorney William Quan Judge...
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with Henry Steel Olcott and Annie Besant over Judge allegedly forging letters from the Mahatmas. As a result, he ended his association with Olcott and...
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Like Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott, he stayed in the organization when others left. When Olcott and Blavatsky left the United States...
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established in 1888 by the Buddhist Theosophical Society, led by Colonel Henry Steel Olcott. It is one of Sri Lanka's oldest schools. Today, the school accommodates...
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Monk S. Mahinda was ordained by him. He was also a close friend of Henry Steel Olcott and administered 'pansil' to him. Piyaratana Tissa Mahanayake Thero...
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proffered by practicing Buddhists. Prothereo describes how Theosophist Henry Steel Olcott (1832–1907) reinterpreted Buddhism: "In addition to a restatement...
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Harrer Hermann Hesse Carl Jung Jon Kabat-Zinn Friedrich Nietzsche Henry Steel Olcott Helena Roerich Ernest Reinhold Rost J. D. Salinger Arthur Schopenhauer...
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Chauncey Olcott (1858–1932), American stage actor and songwriter Frederic P. Olcott (1841–1909), American banker and politician Henry Steel Olcott (1832–1907)...
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the other Buddhist schools in Sri Lanka, owes its existence to Col Henry Steel Olcott, philanthropist and the founder of the Buddhist Theosophical Society...
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Besant was at the time the President of the Society having succeeded Henry Olcott after his death in 1907. The first edition reprinting articles from The...
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currently divides his time between the TSA headquarters in Adyar, India and the Olcott Estate in Wheaton, Illinois, where he lives with his wife, Lily, and daughter...
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Migettuwatte Gunananda Thera, Hikkaduwe Sri Sumangala Thera and Henry Steel Olcott (one of the first American western converts to Buddhism) were some...
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