Buddhist Mysticism | Alan Watts

“Just this month a new book has been published by Dr. D.T. Suzuki, called “Mysticism: Christian and Buddhist.” I’m not intending to devote this program to a review of this book as such, but I call attention to it… to a particular theme which the book deals with — the theme of a particular type of Japanese mysticism — I suppose you’d call it, associated primarily with a type of Buddhism which is called Shinshu… ”

 

Alan Wilson Watts was a British philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and populariser of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. Born in England in 1915, Alan was an Episcopalian priest who became the spokesperson for Eastern religions during the late 1950s and tumultuous 60s. His first book, The Spirit of Zen, however, was written in the 30s when Watts was just 20 years old. He went on to write more than twenty other books. He died in 1973.