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

The text outlines what Olcott saw to be the basic doctrines of Buddhism, including the life of the Buddha, the message of the Dharma, the role of the Sangha.

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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.

Under film director Sidney Olcott, he was the camera man for the pioneering Kalem team that filmed in Florida during the winter and in 1910 would be part of the first ever crew to film on location outside of the United States.

The Kalem company achieved a first in the film industry when Marion sent director Sidney Olcott and a crew to Ireland in 1910 to make A Lad From Old Ireland, the first ever U. S. motion picture to be shot on location outside of the United States.

* Col. Henry Steel Olcott ( 1832 – 1907 ), founder and first president of the Theosophical Society, first well-known person of European ancestry to make a formal conversion to Buddhism, helped create a Buddhist renaissance, assisted in designing the Buddhist flag, a national hero of Sri Lanka.

Directed by Sidney Olcott who also appeared in the film, actress and screenwriter Gene Gauntier wrote the script and portrayed the Virgin Mary.

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.

In early 1875 Olcott was asked by prominent Spiritualists to investigate an accusation of fraud against the mediums Jenny and Nelson Holmes, who had claimed to materialize the famous " spirit control " Katie King ( Doyle 1926: volume 1, 269-277 ).

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 ”.

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.

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.

Olcott is probably the only major contributor to the nineteenth-century Sinhalese Buddhist revival who was actually born and raised in the Protestant Christian fold.

In Olcott, there is a monument with a handful of names of soldiers who fought for the Union cause in the American Civil War.

At this point in his life, Henry Steel Olcott, a respected attorney and war veteran, who also sat on the three-man commission looking into the Abraham Lincoln assassination, was doubling as a newspaper reporter for the New York Sun and the Daily Graphic.

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.

It was director Sidney Olcott at the Kalem Company in New York City who gave Alice Joyce her first chance, casting her in his 1910 production, The Deacon's Daughter.

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

After meeting director Sidney Olcott, who encouraged her venture into film acting, she accepted a bit part in his 1922 film production Timothy's Quest.

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.

In 1915, the company lost Sidney Olcott who left to work independently for World Film Corporation, Famous Players-Lasky, and other studios.

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.

Grant became the companion of film director Sidney Olcott who cast her in his 1915 production of Nan o ' the Backwoods.

They would make the first Ben-Hur film, directed by Sidney Olcott.

An early incarnation of the group that would become 12 Rods was formed in Oxford, Ohio, in May 1992, initiated by Talawanda High School student Ryan Olcott.

She married Olcott, with whom she would remain for the rest of her life, and after he left Kalem she performed in a few films for his production company before retiring in 1918.

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 President of the American body.

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.

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

Helena Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott took Five Precepts at the Wijayananda Viharaya located at Weliwatta in Galle on May 19, 1880.

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.

Olcott helped financially support the Buddhist presence at the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago, 1893.

" After a few years Olcott and Blavatsky moved to India and established the International Headquarters at Adyar, in Madras ( Chennai ).

The late nineteenth century also saw the first western conversions to Buddhism, including leading Theosophists Henry Steel Olcott and Helena Blavatsky in 1880, " beachcombers " such as the Irish ex-hobo U Dhammaloka around 1884 and intellectuals such as Bhikkhu Asoka ( H. Gordon Douglas ), Ananda Metteyya and Nyanatiloka at the turn of the century.

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

Ford took Olcott and the AAVSO up on that invitation and on September 23, 1927, he reported his first variable star estimate-184205 R Scuti at 5. 3 magnitude.

Mr. Merritt's mansion was located at 99 Terrace Drive and bounded on the north by Olcott Place and on the west by South Orange Grove Avenue.

Annie was at the time the President of the Society having succeeded Henry Olcott after his death in 1907.

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.

He began his career as an actor under director Sidney Olcott at Kalem Studios in 1913 and directed his first film for the company two years later.

The Olcott Park Greenhouse 4, 500 square feet ( 420 m² ) is a city-operated greenhouse located in the 40 acre ( 162, 000 m² ) Olcott Park at 9th Avenue W. and 7th Street N. in Virginia, Minnesota.

* 1881 February 8: The arrival of Col. Olcott at Dharmopakari Society Maradana Colombo.

* 1890 October: The second prize giving is conducted by Olcott at No. 54 Maliban Street.

She made her film debut in 1910 at the age of 35 with Kalem Studios in A Lad from Old Ireland under the direction of Sidney Olcott.