Zen Effects: The Life of Alan Watts - Softcover

Furlong, Monica

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0395453925 ISBN 13: 9780395453926

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1987

Synopsis

Book by Furlong, Monica

About this title

About the Author:

Monica Furlong was an author and journalist who lived in London. She authored many books, including Longings: Medieval Women Mystics.

From Publishers Weekly:

Popular Zen philospher Watts, whose bestsellers on oriental mysticism helped create a counterculture, privately insisted that he was a rogue, a fake and entertainer. Without either glorifying or sensationalizing Watts, this superb, intimately detailed biography assesses the impact of a flawed guru, the shy English-born scholar who, by the "summer of love" in 1967, had become a flower child brimming with confidence and flowing hair. Heavy drinking fueled by a gnawing sense of loneliness, three marriages replete with sexual adventures, writing and lecturing to support his seven children marked the life of a very human sage who seems an odd mixture of wisdom and childishness. Watts sought to reawaken Christians to the "innerness" of their religion; he also believed that assimilating Asian wisdom could help Westerners heal their schizoid mentality. Furlong ( Merton: A Biography shows how his ideas evolved and suggests their relevance for a new generation of readers. Photos. (October
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About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0395453925
• ISBN 13: 9780395453926
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256