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Message: <blockquote data-quote="danukapeiris" data-source="post: 9955573" data-attributes="member: 27078">Henry Steel Olcott<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/H.S._Olcott-portrait-300.jpg/220px-H.S._Olcott-portrait-300.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Olcott was the first well-known person 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.</blockquote>

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