Henry Steel Olcott

The American Colonel with the magnificent beard who co-founded the Theosophical Society and became the first prominent Westerner to formally revert to Buddhism. He was the pragmatic engine of the movement, the organizer who turned Blavatsky’s fire into a global institution and fought for the dignity of the Sinhalese people. Can a man of law and war find peace in the scent of lotus blossoms? He is the bridge between the West’s thirst for order and the East’s depth of spirit, the tireless laborer of the Great Work.