Alan Watts

Born: 1915-01-06

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.


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Zen Dog

as Alan Watts (voice)
Released: 2016-09-25

Trapped by daily routine, a man experiences complete freedom by dreaming himself across the...

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as Self (voice recording)
Released: 2018-09-28

A dance music theatre piece that evokes the world of childhood and its careless pleasures. But...

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The Monkey Conflict

as Storyteller
Released: 2024-08-11

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Flow of Zen

as Narrator
Released: 1969-01-01

Alan Watts illustrates in this elegant meditation on Buddhism the nature of reality using the...

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Everything

as Himself
Released: 2017-02-11

It's a simulation of reality where you can see the world from everything's point of view - it's...

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Until There Was Nothing

as Narrator
Released: 2020-04-01

A philosophical video and art exploration of the Earth's passage through a black hole.

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The Essential Lectures of Alan Watts

as Alan Watts
First aired: 1972-12-31

The Essential Lectures of Alan Watts video series was recorded in 1971 above Muir Woods,...

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Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life

as Alan Watts
First aired: 1959-12-31

Join Alan Watts in season one of On Eastern Wisdom & Modern Life. His inaugural season...

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