Written work
The Spirit of Zen
The Spirit of Zen: A Way of Life, Work, and Art in the Far East
His first book, published by John Murray in the Wisdom of the East series. It introduces Zen through D. T. Suzuki's essays: satori, koans, monastic life and Zen's influence on the arts of the Far East. Twenty years later Watts called it an unscholarly and partly outdated popularisation, yet for decades it was a widely read entry point.
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English
Alan Watts
The Spirit of Zen
The Conscious LibraryThe Spirit of Zen
Charles E. Tuttle, 1992
ISBN 9780804817981
The Spirit of Zen
Grove Press, 1977
ISBN 9780802141132
The Spirit of Zen
John Murray, 1958
ISBN 9780719524479
Reedición en Wisdom of the East
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Other works by Alan Watts
- An Outline of Zen Buddhism · 1932
- The Legacy of Asia and Western Man · 1937
- The Meaning of Happiness · 1940
- Theologia Mystica (translation of Pseudo-Dionysius) · 1944
- Behold the Spirit · 1947
- Easter: Its Story and Meaning · 1950
- The Supreme Identity · 1950
- The Wisdom of Insecurity · 1951
- Myth and Ritual in Christianity · 1953
- The Way of Zen · 1957
- Nature, Man and Woman · 1958
- Beat Zen, Square Zen, and Zen · 1959
- This Is It · 1960
- Psychotherapy East and West · 1961
- The Joyous Cosmology · 1962
- The Two Hands of God · 1963
- Beyond Theology · 1964
- The Book · 1966
- Nonsense · 1967
- Psychedelics and Religious Experience · 1968
- Does It Matter? · 1970
- Erotic Spirituality · 1971
- In My Own Way · 1972
- The Art of Contemplation · 1972
- Cloud-Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown · 1973
- Tao: The Watercourse Way · 1975
- The Essence of Alan Watts · 1974
- The Essential Alan Watts · 1976
- Uncarved Block, Unbleached Silk · 1978
- Om: Creative Meditations · 1979
- Play to Live · 1982
- The Way of Liberation in Zen Buddhism · 1955
- The Way of Liberation · 1983
- Out of the Trap · 1985
- Diamond Web · 1986
- The Early Writings of Alan Watts · 1987
- The Modern Mystic · 1990
- Talking Zen · 1994
- Become What You Are · 1995
- Buddhism: The Religion of No-Religion · 1995
- The Philosophies of Asia · 1995
- The Tao of Philosophy · 1995
- Myth and Religion · 1996
- Taoism: Way Beyond Seeking · 1997
- Zen and the Beat Way · 1997
- Seeds of Genius · 1997
- Culture of Counterculture · 1998
- Still the Mind · 2000
- What Is Zen? · 2000
- What Is Tao? · 2000
- Zen: The Supreme Experience · 2002
- Eastern Wisdom, Modern Life · 2006
- The Collected Letters of Alan Watts · 2017
- Just So · 2020
- Tao for Now · 2023
- Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life (television series) · 1959
- A Conversation with Myself · 1971
- Out of Your Mind · 2004
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