Matthieu Ricard

"The author of the international bestseller Happiness makes a passionate case for altruism--and why we need it now more than ever,"--Amazon.com.

Matthieu Ricard est né en 1946 à Paris. Il voyage en Inde pour la première fois en 1967, o il rencontre des maîtres spirituels tibétains. Il décide de s'établir dans l'Himalaya ou il est devenu moine et vit depuis 1972 , étudiant et pratiquant le bouddhisme. Réside actuellement au monastère de Shéchèn au Népal. Il est l'interprète français du Dalaï-lama depuis 1989.

Matthieu Ricard trained as a molecular biologist, working in the lab of a Nobel prize-winning scientist, but when he read some Buddhist philosophy, he became drawn to Buddhism. Eventually he left his life in science to study with Tibetan teachers, and he is now a Buddhist monk and translator for the Dalai Lama, living in the Shechen monastery near Kathmandu in Nepal. Trinh Thuan was born into a Buddhist family in Vietnam but became intrigued by the...

Three luminary teachers unfold a compelling series of dialogues on inner freedom, what it is and how to cultivate it in ourselves and others. "We are, nearly all of us," says Matthieu Ricard, "the playthings of our whims, our conditioning, our impulses, our inner conflicts, our wandering thoughts, and our afflictive emotions. This servitude of ours is at the root of much that torments us. How do we free ourselves from the prison of these mental mechanisms,...

In 1996, internationally renowned philosopher Jean-Francois Revel and his son Matthieu Ricard, a Buddhist monk, spent ten days in the mountains overlooking Kathmandu discussing the most fundamental questions of human existence.