Alan Watts Radio Hour

Alan Wilson Watts (6 Ndira 1915 - 16 Mbudzi 1973) yaive Britain^[1] munyori ndiani anodudzira uye akakurumbira Uzivi hwekuMabvazuva nokuti madokero vateereri. Akazvarirwa mukati Chislehurst, England, akatamira kuUnited States muna 1938 ndokutanga Zen kudzidziswa kuNew York. Achiita basa, akaenda Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, kwaakatambira degree re master mu yezvouMwari. Watts yakava Episcopal Mupristi muna 1945, akabva pahushumiri muna 1950 ndokutamira ku California, kwaakapinda mubatanidzwa we American Academy yeAsia Zvidzidzo.

Watts akawana yakakura kutevera mu San Francisco Bay Area ndichishanda senge yazvipira chirongwa KPFA, mumwe Pacifica Radio chiteshi mukati Berkeley. Watts akanyora anopfuura mabhuku makumi maviri nemashanu uye zvinyorwa pane zvakakosha zvidzidzo nechekumabvazuva uye Chitendero chekumadokero, kusuma iko kubhuroka tsika yevechidiki to Nzira yeZen (1957), rimwe remabhuku ekutanga kutengesa mabhuku pa ChiBhudha, mu Psychotherapy East uye West (1961), Watts akataura kuti Buddhism inogona kufungidzirwa senge fomu ye psychotherapy uye kwete chinamato. Akafunga Zvisikwa, murume nemukadzi (1958) kuva, "kubva pakunyora-bhuku rakanakisa randakambonyora."^[2] Akaongorora zvakare kuziva kwevanhu muchinyorwa chinonzi "The New Alchemy" (1958) uye mubhuku Iyo Joyous cosmology (1962).

Achisvika kumagumo ehupenyu hwake, akagovanisa nguva yake pakati pebote repamba mukati Sausalito uye kabhini iri Gomo reTamalpais. Sekureva kweanopokana Erik Davis, "zvinyorwa zvake nehurukuro dzakarekodhwa zvichiri kupenya zvine hungwaru uye zvichikurudzira."^[3]