Alan Watts Xov tooj cua teev

Alan Wilson Watts (6 Lub Ib Hlis 1915 - 16 Kaum Ib Hlis 1973) yog neeg Askiv^[1] kws sau ntawv leej twg txhais thiab nrov Eastern philosophy rau ib tug Western cov neeg tuaj saib. Yug hauv Chislehurst, England, nws tsiv mus rau Tebchaws Meskas hauv xyoo 1938 thiab pib Zen kev cob qhia hauv New York. Nrhiav kev ua haujlwm, nws tau mus kawm Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, qhov twg nws tau txais kev kawm tiav qib siab hauv theology. Watts tau los ua ib qho Episcopal txiv plig xyoo 1945, tom qab ntawd tawm hauj lwm qhuab qhia xyoo 1950 thiab tsiv mus rau California, qhov twg nws koom nrog cov kws qhia ntawv ntawm lub American Academy of Asian Studies.

Watts tau txais txiaj ntsig zoo hauv qab no San Francisco Bay Area thaum ua haujlwm pab dawb programmer ntawm KPFA, ib tug Xov tooj cua Pacifica chaw nres tsheb hauv Berkeley. Watts tau sau ntau dua 25 phau ntawv thiab cov lus hais txog cov ntsiab lus tseem ceeb rau Eastern thiab Western kev ntseeg, qhia txog lub caij nplooj zeeg cov hluas kab lis kev cai rau Txoj Kev Zen (1957), ib qho ntawm thawj phau ntawv muag khoom zoo tshaj plaws ntawm Buddhism. Nyob rau hauv Psychotherapy East thiab West (1961), Watts tau hais tias kev ntseeg tuaj yeem xav tias yog ib daim ntawv ntawm hlwb kho mob thiab tsis yog kev ntseeg. Nws xav txog Ntuj, txiv neej thiab poj niam (1958) los ua, "los ntawm qhov kev xav ntawm kev sau ntawv - phau ntawv zoo tshaj plaws uas kuv tau sau."^[2] Nws kuj tau tshawb nrhiav tib neeg kev nco qab hauv cov ntawv sau "The New Alchemy" (1958) thiab hauv phau ntawv Lub Joyous Cosmology (1962).

Txog rau thaum kawg ntawm nws lub neej, nws faib nws lub sijhawm ntawm lub nkoj hauv tsev Sausalito thiab ib lub cab nyob rau Mount Tamalpais. Raws li cov neeg thuam Erik Davis, nws "sau ntawv thiab sau cov lus hais tseem shimmer nrog qhov tob thiab galvanizing lucidity."^[3]