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Alan Watts

Alan Watts is best known for The Essential Lectures of Alan Watts and Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life. Alan Watts was born on January 6, 1915. Alan Watts died on November 16, 1973 at the age of 58.

Born: January 6, 1915
Place of birth: Chislehurst, Kent, England, UK
Died: November 16, 1973 (58 years old)

Biography

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.