Examples of using Olcott in English and their translations into Russian
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William Olcott.
He helped Olcott in a work on the organization of Buddhist schools.
Franz Hartmann, a member of the Theosophical Society,co-worker of Blavatsky and Olcott at Adyar.
Olcott set up"through intermediaries" contact with Arya Samaj and offered to unite.
Upon arrival in India Dharmapala as a member of the Theosophical Society worked with Blavatsky and Olcott.
Both she and Colonel Olcott claimed to have seen and to be in communication with Masters.
After further interaction with Blavatsky andhis own labors on behalf of Asian Buddhists, Olcott developed more and more antipathy to the Christian faith.
Similarly Olcott is considered a leading figure in the modern history of Sri Lankan Buddhism.
In 1886, he was a translator,when together with Olcott and Leadbeater made a lecture tour of the island.
Olcott asked all the same of the origin of these statuettes and inquired about their placement.
In it, she used such an obscene word that Olcott jumped up in terror and looked pleadingly at her.
In 1860 Olcott married Mary Epplee Morgan, daughter of the rector of Trinity parish, New Rochelle, New York.
An American scholar of religion Stephen Prothero stated that in Ceylon Olcott was performing"the part of the anti-Christian missionary.
Melton wrote that Olcott become an avid supporter of Buddhism and a defender of the Sri Lankan Buddhists.
Prof. Lopez noted that the relations that Blavatsky and Olcott established with"South Asians tended to be short-lived.
But soon Olcott received a translation of the statute and the doctrines of Arya Samaj, which led the Theosophists to some confusion.
In 1888, the president of the Theosophical Society Henry Olcott met in Oxford with Max Müller,"the father of the'Science of religion'," as Lopez named his.
In Asia, Olcott faced with Buddhist superstition, which is why he argued with some of the leading monks of Sri Lanka.
The Theosophical Society was officially formed in New York City, United States, on 17 November 1875 by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky,Colonel Henry Steel Olcott, William Quan Judge, and others.
Henry Olcott, the co-founder and first President of the Theosophical Society, a"key figure" in the modern history of the Sri Lankan Buddhism.
His organization was in fact"merely a new sect of Hinduism", andseveral years after the arrival of Blavatsky and Olcott in India, the connection between the two societies finally ceased.
When Olcott instructed Leadbeater to prepare a shortened version of the Buddhist Catechism, Dharmapala undertook to translate it to Sinhala.
But in 1882, when he declared that the beliefs of Ceylon Buddhists andBombay Parsis"both were false religions," Olcott concluded that"the swami was just a swami," but he was not an adept.
Thanks to Blavatsky and Olcott, David in 1880 was open to the world, and he joined the efforts of Olcott on the revival of Buddhism in Ceylon.
Moreover, a considerable part of the philosophy expounded by Mr. Sinnett was taught in America, even before Isis Unveiled was published, to two Europeans and to my colleague,Colonel H. S. Olcott.
Olcott and Blavatsky, who received the US citizenship previously, were the first Americans who were converted in 1880 to Buddhism in the traditional sense.
Professor Lopez claimed that thiswas a significant meeting, because both, Buddhist Olcott, and the Buddhist studies scholar Müller, although both were directly related to Buddhism, nevertheless took different positions and lived in different worlds.
Olcott wrote later in his diary that professor Müller, in a conversation with him, highly appreciated the work of Theosophists in translating and re-publishing the sacred books of the East.
But as for our more cherished activities," Olcott wrote,"the discovery and spread of ancient views on the existence of Siddhas and of the siddhis in man, he was utterly incredulous.
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.