Alan Watts Wailesi Yaolawa

Alan Wilson Watts (6 Januware 1915 - 16 Novembara 1973) anali waku Britain^[1] wolemba yemwe amatanthauzira komanso kutchuka Malingaliro akum'mawa kwa Western omvera. Wobadwira Chislehurst, England, adasamukira ku United States mu 1938 ndipo adayamba Zen maphunziro ku New York. Kugwira ntchito, adapita Seabury-Western Theological Seminare, komwe adalandira digiri ya master mu zamulungu. Watts adakhala Episkopi wansembe mu 1945, kenako adasiya utumiki mu 1950 ndikusamukira ku California, kumene adalumikizana ndi luso la American Academy of Asia Studies.

Watts adapeza chotsatira chachikulu mu San Francisco Bay Area akugwira ntchito monga odzipereka ku KPFA, ndi Wailesi ya Pacifica malo ku Berkeley. Watts adalemba mabuku opitilira 25 ndi zolembedwa pamitu yofunika kwambiri kum'mawa ndi Chipembedzo chakumadzulo, kuyambitsa zophunzirazo chikhalidwe chaunyamata ku Njira ya Zen (1957), imodzi mwamabuku ogulitsa koyamba Chibuddha, mu Psychotherapy East ndi West (1961), Watts adati Buddha ikhoza kuganiziridwa ngati mtundu wa psychotherapy ndipo osati chipembedzo. Adawaganizira Zachilengedwe, Mwamuna ndi Mkazi (1958) kukhala, "kuchokera pamalingaliro - buku labwino kwambiri lomwe ndidalemba."^[2] Anasanthula momwe anthu amaganizira m'nkhaniyi "The New Alchemy" (1958) komanso m'bukuli Chisangalalo Chosangalatsa (1962).

Chakumapeto kwa moyo wake, adagawa nthawi yake pakati pa bwato la nyumba mkati Sausalito ndi kanyumba Phiri la Tamalpais. Malinga ndi wotsutsa Erik Davis, “zolemba zake ndi nkhani zake zomwe zinajambulidwa zidakali zokongola kwambiri.”^[3]