" Henry Steel Olcott, Anagarika Dharmapala and the Maha Bodhi Society.

In 1889 the modified flag was introduced to Japan by Anagarika Dharmapala and Olcott — who presented it to the Emperor — and subsequently to Burma.

Dharmapala eventually broke with Olcott and the Theosophists because of Olcott's stance on universal religion.

The young Dharmapala helped Colonel Olcott in his work, particularly by acting as his translator.

Essanay specialized in Westerns featuring " Broncho Billy " Anderson, and Kalem sent Sidney Olcott off with a film crew and a troupe of actors to various places in America and abroad to make film stories in the actual places they were supposed to have happened.

Olcott Beach marinaIn the village the population was spread out with 23. 4 % under the age of 18, 8. 1 % from 18 to 24, 24. 0 % from 25 to 44, 29. 3 % from 45 to 64, and 15. 2 % who were 65 years of age or older.

and sorting its pebbles …” At this time, the affairs of the Society were largely in Olcott ’ s

Also in 1874, Olcott met Helena Blavatsky while both were visiting the Eddy farm.

While in India, Olcott strove to receive the translations of sacred oriental texts which were becoming available as a result of western researches.

On that day Olcott and Blavatsky were formally acknowledged as Buddhists, although Olcott noted that they had previously declared themselves Buddhists, while still living in America.

These were a traditional eight-spoked Dharma wheel and the five-colored flag which had been designed in Sri Lanka in the 1880s with the assistance of Henry Steel Olcott.

The AAVSO headquarters were originally located at the residence of its founder William T. Olcott in Norwich, Connecticut.

Its lyrics were written by Chauncey Olcott and George Graff, Jr., set to music composed by Ernest Ball, for Olcott's production of The Isle O ' Dreams, and Olcott sang the song in the show.

Architects James Polshek and Richard Olcott were commissioned by President Bill Clinton to bring his vision of " a symbol of our heritage, a record of our past, and a jumping-off point for the future ," to life.

Olcott came away from his visit unimpressed by the Eddy brothers, but convinced that they were not charlatans.

Olcott, a former U. S. army colonel during the Civil War, had grown interested in reports of supernatural phenomena that were popular in the late 19th century.

In 1879, Olcott and Blavatsky travelled to India and in 1880, to Sri Lanka, where they were met enthusiastically by local Buddhists, who saw them as allies against an aggressive Christian missionary movement.

The Mahatma Letters are letters that were claimed to be written by the Theosophical Mahatmas or Masters of the Ancient Wisdom to certain Theosophists, especially A. P. Sinnett, A. O. Hume, Henry Steel Olcott, Helena Blavatsky, C. W. Leadbeater and others.

The partners were able to lure general manager and director Sidney Olcott away from Biograph who eventually became the Kalem Company's president and was rewarded with one share of its stock.

As director, Olcott headed the team in Ireland and among those he brought with him were Kalem's leading lady and principal screenwriter, Gene Gauntier, actor Robert Vignola and cameraman, George Hollister.

Civil War Memorial at the Lockport-Olcott Road, just north of Route 18, in Olcott Beach. Olcott is a lakeside community which is home to the deepest harbor on Lake Ontario west of Rochester, NY.

Society had been given to Col Olcott by the Masters before the meeting at which they

His interest aroused, Olcott wrote an article for the New York Sun, in which he investigated Eddy Farms.

Colonel Olcott kept coming back to Ceylon and devoted himself there to the cause of Buddhist education, eventually setting up more than 300 Buddhist schools, some of which are still in existence.

Olcott spent several weeks with the Eddy brothers, during which time he observed a number of séances that William and Horatio put on for free for the public.

On September 7, 2011, it was announced on the website for Justin Vernon's record label Chigliak Records that 12 Rods have an album awaiting release in the label's " first year of vinyl releases ", which began on May 22, 2012, with Amateur Love's It's All Aquatic, produced by Ev Olcott.

Olcott ’ s Catechism reflects a new, Protestant Christian interpretation of traditional Buddhist tenets.

It was Olcott who most eloquently articulated and most obviously embodied the diverse religious and cultural traditions that shaped Protestant Buddhism, who gave the revival movement both its organizational shape and its emphasis on education-as-character-building.

As David McMahan wrote, “ Henry Steel Olcott saw the Buddha as a figure much like the ideal liberal freethinker – someone full of ‘ benevolence ,’ ‘ gratitude ,’ and ‘ tolerance ,’ who promoted ‘ brotherhood among all men ’ as well as ‘ lessons in manly self-reliance ”.

Olcott ’ s role in the Theosophical Society would still be as President, but the induction of Annie Besant sparked a new era of the movement.

Sri Lanka was dominated by British colonial power and influence at the time, and many Buddhists heard Olcott ’ s interpretation of the Buddha's message as socially motivating and supportive of efforts to overturn colonialist efforts to ignore Buddhism and Buddhist tradition.

The most Protestant of all early Protestant Buddhists, Olcott was the liminoid figure, the griot who because of his awkward standing betwixt and between the American Protestant grammars of his youth and the Asian Buddhist lexicon of his adulthood was able to conjure traditional Sinhalese Buddhism, Protestant modernism, metropolitan gentility, and academic Orientalism into a decidedly new creole tradition.

There is considerable difference between the concept of Masters of the Ancient Wisdom in Theosophy ( as described by Blavatsky, Olcott, Sinnett, and others ) and the current concept of Ascended Masters, developed by Guy Ballard and Elizabeth Clare Prophet fifty-five years after the Theosophical Society was founded.

In the late 19th century, a national Buddhist movement started, inspired by the American Buddhist Henry Steel Olcott, and empowered by the results of the Panadura debate between a Christian priest and the Buddhist monk Migettuwatte Gunananda Thera.

The first State Highway Commission was created on August 12, 1913 and was composed of Governor Oswald West, Secretary of State Ben W. Olcott and Treasurer Thomas B. Kay.

Convinced to move to the West Coast, Goudal appeared in two more Olcott films in the ensuing three years.

Hired by director Sidney Olcott for character actor roles, in the fall of 1910 he was sent to work with a film crew on the West Coast.

* July 21 — Chancellor Olcott, singer and songwriter ( d. 1932 )

* Olcott Memorial High School — Chennai, Tamil Nadu

She was hired by director Sidney Olcott who had seen her on stage in New York City, she appeared in her first film for Kalem Studios in 1909 and along with Gene Gauntier was soon billed as a " Kalem Girl.

Through their research, Olcott and Blavatsky concluded that Buddhism best embodied elements of what they found significant in all religions.

Olcott reported that their father constantly tried to " beat them out of " the trances, but to no avail.

A cassette recording of this performance, titled Helikopter Hundrid Dolurz, became their first release before the group disbanded until July 1992 when Olcott was invited to sing in for a new group formed by McGuire, Flynn, and Daniel Burton-Rose at a performance at the end of the summer.