This chapter examines the Sri Lankan afterlives of Henry Steel Olcott as a problem of memory, power, and masculine nation-making rather than as a simple story of “Buddhist revival.” Starting from the paradox that a white American outsider is still celebrated as a foundational figure of Buddhist education, it traces how Olcott’s texts (especially the Buddhist Catechism and Golden Rules of Buddhism) and his ongoing commemoration function as technologies of authority: they frame Buddhism as an ethical system that requires disciplining, standardising, and “modern” pedagogical transmission, while simultaneously reproducing colonial hierarchies in which Western actors appear as initiators and local Buddhists as followers. The chapter then shifts from Olcott “in history” to Olcott “in practice,” analysing the commemorative culture of the so-called Olcott schools (Ananda, Dharmaraja, Mahinda, and related institutions): annual orations, statues, school histories, old boys’ networks, and sporting rituals that publicly perform loyalty, brotherhood, discipline, and Sinhala-Buddhist civilisational pride. By foregrounding omissions, selective remembering, and political alignments within school institutions, the chapter argues that Olcott remembrance operates as a colonial hangover and as a strategic form of agency at once—mobilised to produce an ideal Buddhist citizen and a masculinised national imaginary in the postcolonial present.