Alan Watts in Dharma Bums?

hayesmstw DeleteThis @hotmail.com (Steve Hayes) wrote in message news:<412a2e5c.37835980 DeleteThis @news.saix.net>...
> On 22 Aug 2004 20:37:57 -0700, revjbob666 DeleteThis @hotmail.com (Revjbob) wrote:
>
> >I was reading Alan Watt's autobiography In My Own Way where he
> >mentions that he appears in Kerouac's Dharma Bums under a pseudonym.
> >Does anyone know which character?
>
> Watts, Alan
> Erstwhile Episcopal priest and chaplain at North Western
> University, wrote 24 books on Eastern thought and died in
> 1973 (Chandler 1988:49)
>
> Alan W. Watts visited Pomona College in California in 1953.
> He was an Englishman who had been an Anglican priest in the
> 1940s, but left the ministry in 1950 after a public
> controversy. He became dean of the American Academy of Asian
> Studies in San Francisco 1953 with a speciality in Zen
> Buddhism (Christensen 1993:35). Watts influenced the San
> Francisco Renaissance of the late 1950s and early 1960s, and
> was an avowed hedonist. He also influenced Eugene Rose (Fr
> Seraphim Rose), who later, however, rejected Watts's
> teachings when he embraced Orthodoxy (Christenson 1993:39,
> 53-55).
>
> Watts appears as Arthur Whane in Jack Kerouac's "The Dharma
> Bums" and as Alex Aums in "Desolation Angels."


Thanks for the article...but it brings up another question...this says
he left the anglican church over a public controversy. In his
autobiography he says left because of his "views" on free love...was
this the conrtoversey or was he just kind of glossing over something
else?
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