> It needs to be stated that most practitioners of Zen Buddhism, in both the east and the west, consider Alan Watts to be misinformed about Zen. Some might even

> It needs to be stated that most practitioners of Zen Buddhism, in both the east and the west, consider Alan Watts to be misinformed about Zen. Some might even call him a charlatan. Citation needed please. Watts certainly has his flaws, one of which was that he simply wrote and spoke so much that I think some of the material suffers and becomes repetitive. He always took more of a wide view of religions (east and west) than just focusing narrowly on zen. Watts wrote about Taoism, Christianity, Hinduism, and materialism in addition and often in contrast to Buddhism. I'm not sure even he would lay claim to being an expert on Zen, but when he certainly was responsibly to turning on a lot of westerners to it. Many of those who then went on into deeper study with more "true" Zen teachers (whatever that means).