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Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a British-born 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 masters 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. 艾伦·威尔逊·沃兹（1915,1,6 – 1973,11,16）是一个生于英国的哲学家、作家、演说家，沃兹作为一个为西方听众带来东方智慧的阐说者、传播者而闻名于世。沃兹生于英格兰的契彻赫斯特，1938年，他搬到美国，在纽约开始习禅。为追求一份事业，他加入了席博瑞西方神学院，在那里，他拿下了神学硕士学位。1945年，沃兹成为圣公会牧师，1950年他卸职离开，搬到??加利福尼亚州，在那里，他加入了美国亚洲研究学会。 volunteer programmer at KPFA, a Pacifica Radio station in Berkeley. Watts wrote more than 25 books and articles on subjects important to Eastern and Western religion, introducing the then-burgeoning youth culture to The Way of Zen (1957), one of the first bestselling books on Buddhism. In Psychotherapy East and West (1961), Watts proposed that Buddhism could be thought of as a form of psychotherapy and not a religion. He considered Nature, Man, and Woman (1958) to be, from a literary point of view - the best book I have ever written. He also explored human consciousness, in the essay The New Alchemy (1958), and in the book The Joyous Cosmology (1962). 沃兹在伯克莱的一个太平洋广播站（简称KPFA）当义工。他围绕对东西方至关重要的话题写了25余部书和文章，在1957年出版的《禅的道路》中，他介绍了当时蓬勃发展的青年文化，这本书成为在美国最为畅销的佛学书之一。在《东西方的精神疗法》（1961）中，沃兹提议，佛教在某种程度上可被视为一种精神疗法，而不是宗教。他认为，《自然、男人和女人》（1958）可以说，“从文学的视角来看——这本书是我目前为止写得最好的。”他还探索人类的意识，见于文章《新的炼金术》（1958）和书籍《喜悦的宇宙论》（1962）。 Towards the end of his life, he divided his time between a houseboat in Sausalito and a cabin on Mount Tamalpais. Many of his books are now available in digital format and many of his recorded talks and lectures are available on the Internet. According to the critic Erik Davis, his writings and