Name: Notebooks of a Wandering Monk
Price: 572.00 ZAR
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Author: Matthieu Ricard
ISBN: 9780262048293

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Physical Book

Author

Matthieu Ricard

Publisher

The Mit Press

Language

English

Pages

720

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9780262048293

Notebooks of a Wandering Monk

Matthieu Ricard (Author) · The Mit Press · Hardcover

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Synopsis "Notebooks of a Wandering Monk "

The memoirs of renowned Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard and his extraordinary journey toward inner freedom and compassion in action. Matthieu Ricard began his spiritual transformation at the age of twenty-one, in Darjeeling, India, when he met Tibetan teacher Kangyur Rinpoche, who deeply impressed the young man with his extraordinary quality of being. In Notebooks of a Wandering Monk, Ricard tells the simple yet extraordinary story of his journey and the remarkable men and women who inspired him along the way, including Kangyur Rinpoche, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, and the fourteenth Dalai Lama, as well as great luminaries such as Desmond Tutu, Jane Goodall, and a number of leading scientists. Growing up, Ricard, the son of philosopher Jean-François Revel and artist Yahne Le Toumelin, regularly found himself in the company of intellectuals and artists such as Luis Buñuel, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Igor Stravinsky. Young Ricard loved nature, classical music, and science and dreamed of unlocking the mysteries of molecular biology. But, six years after meeting Kangyur Rinpoche, Ricard gave up a promising career in genetics to pursue a meditative life in the remote Himalayas. While spending half a century in India, Bhutan, and Nepal, he visited Tibet more than twenty times and spent years publishing rare Tibetan texts and photographing his spiritual teachers and the world in which they lived. Elegantly translated by Jesse Browner and accompanied by more than fifty full-color photographs, some of which are Ricard's own, Notebooks of a Wandering Monk charts Ricard's lifelong path to wisdom and compassion. This candid and reflective memoir will inspire all readers, wherever they may be on their own journey to a meaningful and well-lived life.

Matthieu Ricard

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Matthieu Ricard is a renowned writer and French Buddhist monk. In 1967, during his first trip to India, he met spiritual teachers, such as Kangyur Rinpoche.

After completing his thesis in Cellular Genetics at the Pasteur Institute, under the direction of Nobel laureate François Jacob, he decided to settle in the Himalayas. He studied Buddhism and photographed life in monasteries, as well as the art and landscapes of Tibet, Bhutan, and Nepal.

Ordained as a monk in 1978, he has been, since 1989, the French interpreter for the Dalai Lama. He participates in the research of the Mind & Life Institute and has founded the humanitarian association Karuna-Shechen. He lives in the Shechen Monastery in Nepal.

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