"Beat Zen, Square Zen, and Zen"
Journal article
By: Alan Watts
Date: 1958
Source: Watts, Alan. "Beat Zen, Square Zen, and Zen," Chicago Review, Spring 1958. Available online at http://www.bluesforpeace.com/beat_zen.htm (accessed February 10, 2003).
About the Author: Alan Wilson Watts (1915–1973) was born in Chislehurst, England, but moved to America in 1939. Watts was ordained in the Episcopal Church in 1944 and served as a chaplain for several years. In 1950, he left the church and took a teaching job at the American Academy of Asia Studies in San Francisco from 1951 to 1957.
Introduction
"Beat Zen, Square Zen, and Zen" was Alan Watts's condensation of the major characteristics of Zen Buddhism, a religion he helped popularize in the West when he wrote The Way of Zen (1957). Watts's fascination with Zen Buddhism did not...
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