See also: Ricard

Matthieu Ricard was born in 1946 with Paris. He is the son of the philosopher, essay writer and journalist Jean-François Revel (born Jean-François Ricard) and of the painter Yahne Toumelin.

Biography

He travels in India for the first time in 1967, where he meets main spiritual Tibetans. After its Genetic thesis in cellular with the Institute Pasteur, under the direction of the pr. François Jacob, Nobel Prize of Medicine, it decides to be established in the the Himalayas where he became monk and lives since 1972, student and practitioner the Bouddhisme Tibetan near large spiritual Masters, Kangyur Rinpoche and Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. Currently reside at the monastery of Shéchèn to the Nepal. He is the French interpreter of the Dalai Lama since 1989.

He is the author, with his father, of a dialog, the Monk and the Philosopher, translates into 21 languages, with the astrophysicist Trinh Xuan Thuan, of the infinite one in the palm of the hand of the best-seller Plaidoyer for happiness and of the spiritual tale the Citadel of Snows . He also translated from the Tibetan of many works of which " Life of Shabkar " , hundred councils of Padampa Sanguié , With the threshold of the Awakening , and the fountain of grace (Padmakara Editions).

It photographs since forty years the spiritual Masters, the life in the monasteries, the art and the landscapes of the Tibet, the Bhutan and Nepal and is the author of several books of photographs, of which, in French, the Spirit of Tibet, Moines dancers of Tibet , with Danielle and Olivier Föllmi, the Himalayas Bouddhiste (ED. Martiniére), Tibet, glances of compassion and a motionless voyage, the Himalayas seen of a hermitage (ED. Martiniére).

Since 2000, it belongs to the Mind and Life Institute, which facilitates the meetings between the science and the Bouddhisme, and it takes an active part in research tasks which study the influence of the drive of the long-term spirit on the brain (neuronal Plasticité), which continues with the Université S of Madison-Wisconsin, Princeton, Berkeley with the the United States and Maastricht in Holland (see scientific publications below)

It devotes the integrality of its royalties to about thirty humane projects concluded with the Tibet, the Nepal and in India (clinical, schools, orphanages, bridges). For these projects, accomplished with a group of volunteers, to see the charity association which it founded http://www.karuna-fr.org, like http://www.karuna-asia.org

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