News Summary

• A decade after David Bowie’s death, it looks more like his medi­um was cul­ture itself.
• Bowie and Alan Watts had more in com­mon than it may seem at first.
• Watts’ inter­est in Bud­dhism hard­ly needs stat­ing, but he chose to be ordained as an Epis­co­palian priest rather than as a Bud­dhist monk.
• Bowie, for his part, very near­ly took the lat­ter path, study­ing under the late Lama Chime Rin­poche.