Personal Info
Matthieu Ricard
Directing
Biography
Matthieu Ricard is a Nepalese French writer, photographer, translator and Buddhist monk who resides at Shechen Tennyi Dargyeling Monastery in Nepal. He grew up among the personalities and ideas of French intellectual circles. He received a PhD degree in molecular genetics from the Pasteur Institute in 1972. He then decided to forsake his scientific career and instead practice Tibetan Buddhism, living mainly in the Himalayas. Ricard is a board member of the Mind and Life Institute. He received the French National Order of Merit for his humanitarian work in the East with Karuna-Shechen, the non-…
Filmography
Movies
La saveur d’une vie
as Self
Bhutan: Following in the Footsteps of Matthieu Ricard
as himself
LIVING IS A DREAM
Viananda
The Sweet Taste of Success
as Matthieu Ricard
Who We Were
as Self - Buddhist Monk
From Stress to Happiness
as Self
My Year of Living Mindfully
as Himself
Return to Gandhi Road
as himself
Upper Story: On the Road to Well-Being
as Self
