Interactions with Japanese Buddhism - Explorations and Viewpoints in Twentieth Century Kyōto - Michael Pye
13. The "Mind-less" Scholar
Interactions with Japanese Buddhism - Explorations and Viewpoints in Twentieth Century Kyōto - Michael Pye
Alan Watts † [+]
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An indefatigable promulgator of Zen in North America, the British-born Alan Watts (1915 - 1973) published widely and did much to popularize Zen to the counter culture of the 1960s.
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Here Watts writes of Suzuki as a "mind-less" scholar, that is, one who overcame the restrictions of ratiocination.