Alan Watts

Biography

Alan Wilson Watts was a British philosopher, writer and speaker known for interpreting and popularising Buddhism, Taoism, and Hinduism for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, England, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York. He received a master's degree in theology from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary and became an Episcopal priest in 1945. He left the ministry in 1950 and moved to California, where he joined the faculty of the American Academy of Asian Studies.

Known For

Zen Dog

as Alan Watts (voice)

The Art of Meditation

as Himself

Everything

as Himself

The Essential Lectures of Alan Watts

as Alan Watts

Play

as Self (voice recording)

Work as Play

as Himself

Conversation with Myself

as Himself

The Flow of Zen

as Narrator

Until There Was Nothing

as Narrator

Buddhism, Man and Nature

as Narrator