The Peculiar Truth about the Alcoholic Buddhist

<ul> <li>Few people were more instrumental in bringing Eastern philosophy and religion to the West than Alan Watts.</li> <li>He was born in England in 1915 and grew to be a brilliant student. His early fascination with Asian culture came from reading Sax Rohmer’s fictional tales about Fu Manchu.</li> <li>As a teenager, Watts studied Eastern philosophy, a unique field at that time for a British adult let alone a young man. His father took him to a Buddhist Lodge where Alan discovered his lifelong calling.</li> <li>At age 17, he wrote his first book, An Outline of Zen Buddhism (actually, a booklet; his first full-length book was The Spirit of Zen, 1936, when he was 21).</li> </ul> <a href="https://medium.com/the-peculiar-truth/the-peculiar-truth-about-the-alcoholic-buddhist-7f1c800e637f">Learn More</a>