Reviews
"For illuminating details on how Watts happened to be in the right place at the right time to bring Zen to the attention of millions, this biography is a must." --Los Angeles Times "Lucid, intelligent, and compelling...inspires ne --Jack Maguire, author of Waking Up: A Week Inside a Zen Monastery and Essential Buddhism, "For illuminating details on how Watts happened to be in the right place at the right time to bring Zen to the attention of millions, this biography is a must." -Los Angeles Times "Lucid, intelligent, and compelling...inspires ne -Jack Maguire, author of Waking Up: A Week Inside a Zen Monastery and Essential Buddhism
Table of Content
Foreword to the SkyLight Lives Edition Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Paradise Garden, 1915-1920 2. The Education of a Brahmin, 1920-1932 3. Christmas Zen, 1932-1938 4. The Towers of Manhattan, 1938-1941 5. Colored Christian, 1941-1947 6. Correspondence, 1947-1950 7. A Priest Inhibited, 1950-1951 8. The Wisdom of Insecurity, 1951-1960 9. Counterculture, 1960-1968 10. The Home Behind Home, 1969-1973 Notes Books by Alan Watts Index