The White Buddhist: The Asian Odyssey of Henry Steel Olcott

by Stephen Prothero

Book Overview

Denounced by the New York Times as an "unmitigated rascal" while simultaneously being lauded as a reincarnation of Gautama Buddha himself, Henry Steel Olcott (1832-1907) was friend to Madame Blavatsky, co-founder of the Theosophical Society, and an indefatigable reformer and culture broker between East and West. Olcott helped bring about a new spiritual creation, Protestant Buddhism, a creative creolization of American Protestantism, traditional...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253222761
• ISBN13: 9780253222763
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"