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Sokei-an Shigetsu Sasaki, born Yeita Sasaki, was a Japanese Rinzai monk who founded the Buddhist Society of America in New York City in 1930. Influential in the growth of Zen Buddhism in the United St
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Alan Wilson Watts was a British and American writer, speaker, and self-styled "philosophical entertainer", known for interpreting and popularising Buddhist, Taoist, and Hindu philosophy for a Western
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…In 1944 he married American Ruth Fuller Everett. He died in May 1945 without leaving behind a Dharma heir. One of his better known students was Alan Watts, who studied under him briefly. Watts was a student of Sokei-an in the late 1930s. Sokei-an was born in Japan in 1882 as Yeita Sasaki. He was raised…
Alan Watts delivering his address "Faith Beyond Belief" at the University of Vermont on 15 June 1958, just after receiving his honorary Doctor of Divinity
The Alan Watts Library in Druid Heights, where some of Watts' ashes were buried