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'''Matthieu Ricard''' (born [[1946]]) is a [[Buddhist monk]] who resides at Shechen Tennyi Dargyeling Monastery in [[Nepal]]. |
'''Matthieu Ricard''' (born [[1946]]) is a [[Buddhist monk]] who resides at Shechen Tennyi Dargyeling Monastery in [[Nepal]]. |
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[[Image:Matthieu-ricard.jpg|thumb|Portrait taken in 1999 by Elsa Dorfman (http://elsa.photo.net)]] |
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Born in [[Paris]], he is the son of [[Jean-François Revel]], a French philosopher, and grew up among the personalities and ideas of French intellectual circles. He first traveled to [[India]] in 1967. |
Born in [[Paris]], he is the son of [[Jean-François Revel]], a French philosopher, and grew up among the personalities and ideas of French intellectual circles. He first traveled to [[India]] in 1967. |
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Revision as of 19:25, 28 October 2006
Matthieu Ricard (born 1946) is a Buddhist monk who resides at Shechen Tennyi Dargyeling Monastery in Nepal.
Born in Paris, he is the son of Jean-François Revel, a French philosopher, and grew up among the personalities and ideas of French intellectual circles. He first traveled to India in 1967.
He worked for a Ph.D. degree in biochemistry at the Institute Pasteur. After completing his doctoral thesis in 1972, Ricard decided to forsake his scientific career and concentrate on Tibetan Buddhist studies. He lived in the Himalayas with the greatest living teachers of that tradition and became the close student and attendant of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche until his passing in 1991. Since then, Mr. Ricard has dedicated his activities to fulfilling Khyentse Rinpoche’s vision.
Ricard’s photographs of the spiritual masters, the landscape, and the people of the Himayalas have appeared internationally in numerous books and magazines. Henri Cartier-Bresson has said of his work, “Matthieu’s spiritual life and his camera are one, from which springs these images, fleeting and eternal.” He is the author and photographer of Journey to Enlightenment and Monk Dancers of Tibet and, in collaboration, the photobook, Buddhist Himalayas. He is the translator of numerous Buddhist texts, including The Life of Shabkar. The dialogue with his father, Jean-Francois Revel, The Monk and the Philosopher, was a best seller in Europe, and The Quantum and the Lotus reflects his long-standing interest in science and Buddhism. His new book, on the meaning and fulfillment of happiness will be published in English in 2006 by Little Brown.
He received the French National Order of Merit for his humanitarian work in the East. For the last few years, Mr. Ricard has spent several months a year in Tibet implementing charitable projects that build and maintain clinics, schools and orphanages in the region. Since 1989, he has accompanied the Dalai Lama to France, acting as his interpreter.
References
- Dilgo Khyentse Fellowship - Shechen Ricard's biography.