UAlan Watts Radio Hour

Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a British^[1] umbhali who interpreted and popularised Intanda-bulumko yaseMpuma ye sentshona audience. Born in Chislehurst, England, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York. Pursuing a career, he attended Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, where he received a master’s degree in yenkolo. Watts became an Episcopal priest in 1945, then left the ministry in 1950 and moved to California, where he joined the faculty of the American Academy of Asian Studies.

Watts gained a large following in the Indawo yaseSan Francisco Bay while working as a volunteer programmer at KPFA, i Umsakazo wePacifica isikhululo phakathi Berkeley. Watts wrote more than 25 books and articles on subjects important to asempumalanga kwaye Western religion, introducing the then-burgeoning inkcubeko yolutsha ukuba The Way of Zen (1957), one of the first bestselling books on inkolo yakwaBudda, e Psychotherapy East and West (1961), Watts proposed that Buddhism could be thought of as a form of yengqondo and not a religion. He considered Nature, Man and Woman (1958) to be, “from a literary point of view—the best book I have ever written.”^[2] He also explored human consciousness in the essay “The New Alchemy” (1958) and in the book The Joyous Cosmology (1962).

Towards the end of his life, he divided his time between a houseboat in Sausalito and a cabin on Mount Tamalpais. According to the critic Erik Davis, his “writings and recorded talks still shimmer with a profound and galvanizing lucidity.”^[3]