Home›Sources›Buddhist Publication Society, Wheel Publication No. 281, "Colonel Olcott: His Service to Buddhism"SourcesBuddhist Publication Society, Wheel Publication No. 281, "Colonel Olcott: His Service to Buddhism"Kirthisinghe and Amarasuriya's 1981 Historical Essay on Olcott's Buddhist School Movement in CeylonCitation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "Buddhist Publication Society, Wheel Publication No. 281, "Colonel Olcott: His Service to Buddhism"." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/bps-wh281-olcott-service-to-buddhism.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). Buddhist Publication Society, Wheel Publication No. 281, "Colonel Olcott: His Service to Buddhism". Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/bps-wh281-olcott-service-to-buddhismCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-buddhist-publication-society-wheel-publi, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {Buddhist Publication Society, Wheel Publication No. 281, "Colonel Olcott: His Service to Buddhism"}, year = {2026}, url = {https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/bps-wh281-olcott-service-to-buddhism}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXThis is Buddhist Publication Society Wheel Publication No. 281, Colonel Olcott: His Service to Buddhism, by B. P. Kirthisinghe and M. P. Amarasuriya, published by the Buddhist Publication Society in Kandy, Sri Lanka. Its strength is that it is a specialist Buddhist studies publisher's essay by two named authors, independent of the Theosophical Society itself, giving specific dated school and attendance figures rather than a general characterization. Its limit is that it is not academically peer reviewed and was published by a Buddhist institutional press with its own interest in Olcott's legacy, so a claim needing a fully outside academic assessment of his historical impact should also draw on independent scholarship.FactsClaims Backed By This Source (37 claims)Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsAssessmentReliability TierWell-attested2Tier 2: a specialist Buddhist studies publisher's essay by two named authors, independent of the Theosophical Society itself though not academically peer reviewed, giving specific dated school and attendance figures rather than a general characterization.NotesWell-attestedA historical essay published by the Buddhist Publication Society in Kandy, Sri Lanka, as Wheel Publication No. 281, written by two named authors, B. P. Kirthisinghe and M. P. Amarasuriya, and read directly at its own hosted address. It gives specific dated figures for the Buddhist school movement Colonel Henry Steel Olcott began through the Buddhist Theosophical Society: only two Buddhist schools with a combined 246 students when Olcott first arrived in Ceylon in 1880, growing to 194 Buddhist schools with 15,490 children by 1899, of which 92 had by then been formally registered with the government. Classed scholarly-estimate: a specialist Buddhist studies publisher's historical account rather than an official government count or the Society's own contemporary statistics.CitationAuthorWell-attestedB. P. Kirthisinghe and M. P. AmarasuriyaPublisherWell-attestedBuddhist Publication Society, Kandy, Sri LankaPublication YearWell-attested1981URLWell-attestedhttps://www.bps.lk/olib/wh/wh281_Kirthisinghe_Amarasuriya_Colonel-Olcott--Service-to-Buddhism.htmlSource TypeWell-attestedEssayClaims Backed By This Source (37 claims)This source backs 37 claims across the atlas. As facts: 27 well-attested. As cited relationships: 5 holds, 2 connected. Plus 3 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.Disposition By TopicOrganizations, 15 claims: 9 well-attested, 5 holds, 1 general references.Articles, 14 claims: 10 well-attested, 2 connected, 2 general references.Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.Well-attested27ArticlesFrom Two Schools to One Hundred Ninety FourOlcott, Blavatsky and Sumangala Found a SocietyOrganizationsBuddhist Theosophical SocietySourcesBuddhist Publication Society, Wheel Publication No. 281, "Colonel Olcott: His Service to Buddhism"Holds5OrganizationsBuddhist Theosophical SocietyConnected2ArticlesFrom Two Schools to One Hundred Ninety FourOlcott, Blavatsky and Sumangala Found a SocietyGeneral References3ArticlesFrom Two Schools to One Hundred Ninety FourOlcott, Blavatsky and Sumangala Found a SocietyOrganizationsBuddhist Theosophical SocietyComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year