I-Alan Watts Radio Hour

U-Alan Wilson Watts (6 Januwari 1915 - 16 Novemba 1973) wayengowaseBrithani^[1] umlobi obehumusha futhi ethandwa ngabantu Ifilosofi yaseMpumalanga Okwe Western izilaleli. Uzalelwe ngaphakathi I-Chislehurst, ENgilandi, wathuthela e-United States ngo-1938 waqala Zen ukuqeqeshwa eNew York. Ephishekela umsebenzi, waya kuwo I-Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, lapho athola khona iziqu ze-master ku imfundiso ekhuthaza. Watts waba I-Episcopal Umpristi ngo-1945, wabe eshiya inkonzo ngo-1950 wathutha California, lapho ejoyine ubuhlakani be I-American Academy yezifundo zase-Asia.

Watts uthole okulandelayo enkulu ku- Indawo yaseSan Francisco Bay ngenkathi ngisebenza njengohlelo lokuzinikela e I-KPFA, a Umsakazo wePacifica sesha ngaphakathi Berkeley. AmaWatts abhale izincwadi ezingaphezu kwama-25 nezindatshana ngezihloko ezibalulekile kuzo Eastern futhi Inkolo yaseNtshonalanga, ukwethula ukubuyiselwa emuva kwalokho isiko lentsha kuya Indlela yeZen (1957), enye yezincwadi zokuqala ezathengiswayo Buddhism, e I-Psychotherapy East kanye neNtshonalanga (1961), amaWatts ahlongoza ukuthi ubuBuddha bungacatshangelwa njengendlela i-psychotherapy futhi hhayi inkolo. Wacabanga Imvelo, Indoda nowesifazane (1958) to be, “from the literary view of the book — the book best I have ever wrote.” (XNUMX) to be, “from the literary view of the book-the book best I have ever wrote.” (XNUMX) to be, “ngokombono wokubhala — incwadi enhle kunazo zonke engake ngazibhala.”^[2] Uphinde wahlola ukwazi kwabantu endabeni ethi “The New Alchemy” (1958) nasencwadini I-Joyous cosmology (1962).

Ekupheleni kokuphila kwakhe, wahlukanisa isikhathi sakhe phakathi kwesikebhe sendlu phakathi Sausalito nekhabethe kuvuliwe INtaba Tamalpais. Ngokusho komsolwa U-Erik Davis, “imibhalo yakhe nezinkulumo zakhe eziqoshiwe kusacwebezela lukhulu futhi lushukumisa.”^[3]