Marcella Scott Krisel Collection of Lectures by Alan Watts in Los Angeles, ca. 1950-1969

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Marcella Scott Krisel Collection of Lectures by Alan Watts in Los Angeles, ca. 1950-1969

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Alan Wilson Watts (1915-1973) was a professor of comparative philosophy (1951-57), dean (1953-56), and writer and lecturer (1956-73) at the University of the Pacific, Academy of Asian Studies in San Francisco. He helped popularize Zen Buddhism in the U.S., was an author, and a presentor of radio lectures in syndication. The collection consists of notes of seminars and lectures given by Alan Watts in the Los Angeles area, transcribed by Marcella Scott Krisel from shorthand notes, typed, and in paper binders.

1 box (0.5 linear ft.)

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University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.

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Krisel, Marcella Scott

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Biography Alan Wilson Watts was born on January 6, 1915 in Chislehurst, England; edited The Middle Way (London, 1934-8); became member of council of the executive committee, World Congress of Faiths (1937-9); came to the U.S. in 1938; was ordained an Anglican priest, 1944; became a religious counselor at Northwestern University (1944-50), where he began to question the linearity of thought in Christianity; he became professor of comparative p...

Watts, Alan, 1915-1973

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