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Volume 04 1997

Review: Henry Steel Olcott

April 7, 2010 buddhistethics
ISSN 1076-9005
Volume 4 1997

The White Buddhist: The Asian Odyssey of Henry Steel Olcott. By Stephen Prothero. Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1996, 242 pages, ISBN 0-253-33014-9 (cloth), $35.00.

Reviewed By Gananath Obeyesekere

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