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阿伦• 瓦兹(1915—1973),美国神学博士,禅宗信徒,对印度与中国的哲学宗教有精深的了解。他的思想受到铃木大拙的影响,同时又不局限于东西方宗教和哲学的某一领域,这也让瓦兹赢得了“20 世纪最具原创性、最‘离经叛道’哲学家之一”的头衔。瓦兹生前出版有二十多部有关宗教哲学和心理学的著作,在美国几乎每一部都是畅销书,并被以多种语言在全球翻译出版,其中包括他最著名的作品《禅道》。作为一个狂热的演讲者,瓦兹在20 世纪60 年代定期出现在广播节目中,并主持了热门的系列电视节目《东方智慧与现代生活》。他在美国的影响力甚至超过了吉杜• 克里希那穆提。在1959 年出版的《垮掉禅、方形禅与禅》中,瓦兹为美国“垮掉一代”的禅修实践命了名。他与美国著名生态诗人加里• 斯奈德之间也有深厚的友谊,为美国环境保护运动的兴起提供了哲学上的助力。
Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a British-born American philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and populariser of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, England, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York. Pursuing a career, he attended Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, where he received a master’s degree in theology. Watts became an Episcopal priest in 1945, then left the ministry in 1950 and moved to California, where he joined the faculty of the American Academy of Asian Studies.