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Alan Watts

Alan Watts é mais conhecido por The Essential Lectures of Alan Watts e Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life. Alan Watts nasceu em 6 de janeiro de 1915. Alan Watts morreu em 16 de novembro de 1973, aos 58 anos.

Nascimento: 6 de janeiro de 1915
Local de nascimento: Chislehurst, Kent, England, UK
Falecimento: 16 de novembro de 1973 (58 anos)

Biografia

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.