Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #723950 in Books
• Published on: 1999-10-15
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .28 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 1 pages

From Publishers Weekly
The taped lectures of Alan Watts have inspired a generation. Now, in handsomely designed little volumes, of which this is the first, they are appearing in print form. Few people in the middle of the century spoke as eloquently as Watts about Zen. Here, five of his justly famous lectures?three of the so-called "Japan Lectures" and two, delivered on his Sausalito house boat, on Tibetan Buddhism?are now transcribed and compiled. Especially welcome is the transcription of the renowned "Religion of No Religion" lecture in which some of the most difficult Buddhist concepts are presented with such lucidity as to make us gasp. Watts, an Episcopal priest who became a Zen scholar, was an accomplished stylist; and although his famous voice and happy laughter are missing now, his penetrating vision of Buddhism remains, and his lectures become brilliant prose in book form. This series, and this volume in particular, will be important to any new student of the East's religions.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

The Inner Directions Journal
"Alan Watts had the gift of being able to communicate with an intuitive intelligence and humor."

The New York Times Book Review
"Watts displays his famous breezy, devil-may-care style...it's easy to see why his influence remains strong."