Written at a time when interest in Buddha's philosophy was beginning to develop in the West - increasingly booming today -, The path of Zen presents us with this Japanese variant of Buddhism, as Watts shows in this work, has much to offer the Western man of our time, whether they are proposals for vital attitudes or behavioral guidelines. In this extensive study, Watts outlines the main features of this philosophy in a clear way., enjoyable and instructive, but also rigorous, and analyzes the points of contact of Zen with the Tao and Indian Buddhism, with what, after all, manages to give the reader a clear image, concise and faithful to Zen thought.
This work by Alan Watts is considered in the academic field as one of the most serious and documented works on Zen..