Emptiness and Nothingness
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Alan Watts
Alan Watts (1915–1973) was a British-born American writer and lecturer who interpreted Buddhist, Daoist, and Hindu philosophy for Western readers. He is best known for The Way of Zen and for his years on the faculty of the American Academy of Asian Studies in San Francisco, where he taught comparative religion and Zen Buddhism. Watts wrote more than twenty-five books along with numerous essays, and his public lectures and radio broadcasts introduced many Americans to Buddhist thought.
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Civilization may pretend to be separate, but nature will always reassert itself.
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Alan Watts Reconsidered
Alan Watts' remarkable journey from the young student who contacted the Buddhist Lodge to the independent scholar who helped introduce the East and Buddhism to a whole generation of Americans
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