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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Tác giả chính: Prothero, Stephen R.
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1996.
Loạt:Religion in North America.
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Mục lục:
  • 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.