
Person
Alan Watts
Acting
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jan 6, 1915
- Died
- Nov 16, 1973
- From
- Chislehurst, Kent, England, UK
Alan Wilson Watts was a British philosopher, writer and speaker known for interpreting and popularising Buddhism, Taoism, and Hinduism for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, England, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York. He received a master's degree in theology from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary and became an Episcopal priest in 1945. He left the ministry in 1950 and moved to California, where he joined the faculty of the American Academy of Asian Studies.
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Zen Dog
The Art of Meditation

Everything

The Essential Lectures of Alan Watts

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Conversation with Myself
Work as Play

The Flow of Zen

Until There Was Nothing
Zen: The Best of Alan Watts
Zen and Now
Buddhism, Man and Nature
Time and the More It Changes

The Monkey Conflict
Exhale

TRUST THE UNIVERSE: The Philosophy of Alan Watts

Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life

The Great Stream