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The Life of Buddha and Its Lessons
3,99 € |
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Verlag: | Sheba Blake Publishing |
Format: | EPUB |
Veröffentl.: | 16.05.2017 |
ISBN/EAN: | 9783961897988 |
Sprache: | englisch |
Anzahl Seiten: | 9 |
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Beschreibungen
Colonel Henry Steel Olcott (2 August 1832 - 17 February 1907) was an American military officer, journalist, lawyer and the co-founder and first President of the Theosophical Society. Olcott was the first well-known American of European ancestry to make a formal conversion to Buddhism. His subsequent actions as president of the Theosophical Society helped create a renaissance in the study of Buddhism. Olcott is considered a Buddhist modernist for his efforts in interpreting Buddhism through a Westernized lens. Olcott was a major revivalist of Buddhism in Sri Lanka and he is still honored in Sri Lanka for these efforts. Olcott has been called by Sri Lankans "e;one of the heroes in the struggle of our independence and a pioneer of the present religious, national and cultural revival"e;.