Henry Steel Olcott (Wikipedia)

Wikipedia's article on Henry Steel Olcott, community-edited. States his 16 May 1880 arrival in Colombo, his and Helena Blavatsky's formal taking of the Five Precepts on 19 May 1880 at Wijayananda Viharaya in Galle, his 1881 Buddhist Catechism (still in use in Sri Lanka today), and the Buddhist schools the Theosophical Society founded under his organizing across the 1880s (Ananda College 1886, Dharmaraja College 1887, Maliyadeva College 1888, Mahinda College 1892). It states the colonial context directly: Sri Lanka under British colonial power, with Olcott's modernized, Western-framed presentation of Buddhism heard by many Buddhists as supporting efforts to overturn colonial marginalization of Buddhism and Buddhist tradition. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/