Alan Watts
Geboren: January 06, 1915 – Chislehurst, Kent, England
Alan Watts was a British-born writer, philosopher, and speaker who popularized Zen Buddhism, Taoism, and comparative religion for Western audiences. His notable books include The Way of Zen and The Wisdom of Insecurity. Through widely circulated lectures and books, he became one of the twentieth century’s most influential interpreters of Eastern thought.
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"Alan Watts was credited with introducing and popularizing Eastern philosophy and religion among Western audiences"
— Britannica
"Alan Watts had the rare gift of writing beautifully the unwritable"
— Los Angeles Times
"Pioneering philosopher Alan Watts was credited with popularizing Zen thinking in mainstream Western society"
— The Marginalian
"The mid-century philosopher Alan Watts was a leading exponent of Eastern thought to the Western world"
— The New Yorker
"Alan Watts was a spiritual polymath, the first and possibly greatest"
— Deepak Chopra
"Alan Watts, for all his faults, was a wildly imaginative and provocative thinker who reimagined religion in a secular age"
— Aeon
"Alan Watts, the British philosopher who popularised eastern philosophy in the west"
— The Guardian