Tao: the watercourse way

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Pantheon Books, Oct 1, 1975 - Religion - 134 pages
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Drawing on ancient and modern sources, Watts treats the Chinese philosophy of Tao in much the same way as he did Zen Buddhism in his classic The Way of Zen. Critics agree that this last work stands as a perfect monument to the life and literature of Alan Watts.--Publisher description.

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User Review  - bkinetic - LibraryThing

I have been reading different translations of the Tao Te Ching and found some of the chapters difficult to understand. Alan Watts has a Western perspective on the material, so in this book he was able ... Read full review

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Published posthumously a couple years after Watts’ death in 1973 at the age of 58, and perhaps a little incomplete as a result, this is nevertheless one of the better and more readable descriptions of ... Read full review

Contents

Too 37
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CHINESE CALLIGRAPHY
99
TeVirtuality
106
Copyright

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About the author (1975)

Alan Watts was born in England in 1915 and received his early education at King's School, Canterbury. He received a master's degree from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in Illinois and an honorary doctorate of divinity from the University of Vermont. He wrote his first book, The Spirit of Zen, at the age of twenty and went on to write over twenty other books including The Way of Zen, The Book, and Tao: The Watercourse Way, which though never fully completed was published after the author's death and introduced thousands of readers to Taoist thought.
In addition to being an acclaimed author and philosopher, Dr. Watts was also an Episcopalian minister, professor, graduate-school dean and reasearch fellow of Harvard University. By the early 1960s, he moved to Sausolito, California, and held seminars and lectures throughout the United States. Alan Watts died in 1973.

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TitleTao: the watercourse way
AuthorsAlan Watts, Al Chung-liang Huang
Editionillustrated
PublisherPantheon Books, 1975
Original fromthe University of California
DigitizedJun 10, 2009
ISBN0394489012, 9780394489018
Length134 pages
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Chinese language
Chinese language - Writing
Religion / Taoism
Taoism
  
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