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Alan Watts

Alan Watts tunnetaan parhaiten teoksista The Essential Lectures of Alan Watts ja Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life. Alan Watts on syntynyt 6. tammikuuta 1915. Alan Watts kuoli 16. marraskuuta 1973 58-vuotiaana.

Syntynyt: 6. tammikuuta 1915
Syntymäpaikka: Chislehurst, Kent, England, UK
Kuollut: 16. marraskuuta 1973 (58 v)

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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.