ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Alan Watts is best known as an interpreter of Zen Buddhism in particular and of Indian and Chinese philosophy in general. He earned the reputation of being one of the most original and unfettered philosophers of the twentieth century. He was the author of more than twenty books, including The Way of Zen, The Wisdom of Insecurity, Does It Matter, Psychotherapy East and West, The Book, This Is It, The Joyous Cosmology, In My Own Way, and Tao: The Watercourse Way (with Chungliang Al Huang). He died in 1973.