The white Buddhist : the Asian odyssey of Henry Steel Olcott /
The New York Times denounced him as an "unmitigated rascal". Others described him as a reincarnation of the Buddhist emperor Ashoka or perhaps Gautama Buddha himself. He was Colonel Henry Steel Olcott (1832 - 1907), friend to Madame Blavatsky and president-founder of the Theosophical Socie...
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| Lingua: | inglese |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
©1996.
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| Serie: | Religion in North America.
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| Accesso online: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=11068 |
Sommario:
- 1. Universal Reformer
- 2. From Spiritualism to Theosophy
- 3. An Errand to Asia
- 4. The Sinhalese Buddhist Revival
- 5. A United Buddhist World
- 6. The Indian Renaissance
- 7. Things Fall Apart.