UAlan Watts Radio Hour

Alan Wilson Watts (6 kaJanuwari 1915 – 16 Novemba 1973) wayengumBritane^[1] umbhali owatolika waza wandisa Intanda-bulumko yaseMpuma ye sentshona abaphulaphuli. Uzalwe e Chislehurst, eNgilani, wafudukela eUnited States ngowe-1938 waza waqalisa Zen uqeqesho eNew York. Ukusukela umsebenzi, waya Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, apho wafumana isidanga se-master in yenkolo. Watts waba Episcopal umfundisi ngowe-1945, emva koko wayeka ubulungiseleli ngowe-1950 waza waya kuhlala apho California, apho wajoyina iFaculty ye I-American Academy yezifundo zaseAsia.

IiWatts zafumana abalandeli abaninzi kwi Indawo yaseSan Francisco Bay ngelixa usebenza njengomdwelisi wevolontiya kwi KPFA, i Umsakazo wePacifica isikhululo phakathi Berkeley. Watts wabhala ngaphezu 25 iincwadi kunye namanqaku kwimiba ebalulekileyo asempumalanga kwaye Unqulo lwaseNtshona, ukwazisa ukunyanzeliswa kwangoku inkcubeko yolutsha ukuba Indlela yeZen (1957), enye yeencwadi zokuqala ezithengiswa kakhulu inkolo yakwaBudda, e I-Psychotherapy eMpuma naseNtshona (1961), uWatts ucebise ukuba ubuBhuda bunokucingelwa njengoluhlobo yengqondo kwaye hayi inkolo. Waqwalasela Indalo, uMntu noMfazi (1958) ukuba, "ngokwembono yoncwadi-yeyona ncwadi ibalaseleyo endakha ndayibhala."^[2] Uphinde waphonononga ukuqonda komntu kwisincoko esithi “The New Alchemy” (1958) nakwincwadi. IJoyous Cosmology (1962).

Ngasekupheleni kobomi bakhe, wahlula ixesha lakhe phakathi kwephenyane elingaphakathi Sausalito kunye nekhabhinethi INtaba iTamalpayi. Ngokutsho komgxeki UErik Davis, “imibhalo neentetho zakhe ezirekhodiweyo zisenencasa enzulu neyothusayo.”^[3]