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Alan Watts

Alan Watts je známý především z: The Essential Lectures of Alan Watts a Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life. Alan Watts se narodil 6. ledna 1915. Alan Watts zemřel(a) 16. listopadu 1973 ve věku 58 let.

Narození: 6. ledna 1915
Místo narození: Chislehurst, Kent, England, UK
Úmrtí: 16. listopadu 1973 (58 let)

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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.