Featuring the edited transcripts of eight talks delivered by Alan Watts from 1965 to 1972, The Philosophies of Asia offers an overview of the major traditions of Eastern thought. Watts addresses the major Asian philosophies -- Hinduism, Zen Buddhism, and Taoism -- and reveals the common threads of spirituality that weave their way through each of these traditions.
Mark Watts Books
The reflections and thoughts recorded in this book, beginning with the first essay on Zen from 1955 to the last seminar Alan Watts conducted just weeks before his death, allow readers to penetrate his thinking and provide insight into the wide range of influences that shaped it. Readers are also treated to a glimpse of the sparkling wit that infuses all of this philosophical entertainer's work, as Watts himself described his efforts to convey the meaning, significance, and joy of the Way of Liberation.