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Matthieu Ricard
Aix-les-Bains, Savoie, Rhône-Alpes, France
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 personali…
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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-profit organization he co-founded in 2000 with Rabjam Rinpoche. Since 1989, he has acted as the French interpreter for the 14th Dalai Lama. Since 2010, he has been travelling and giving a series of talks with and assisting in teachings by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, the incarnation of Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.
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2025
La saveur d’une vie
Movie Self
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2024
LIVING IS A DREAM
Movie
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2024
Bhutan: Following in the Footsteps of Matthieu Ricard
Movie himself
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2023
Viananda
Movie
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2022
The Sweet Taste of Success
Movie Matthieu Ricard
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2022
Quelle époque !
TV show Self - Guest
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2022
The A Talks
TV show Self - Guest
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2021
Who We Were
Movie Self - Buddhist Monk
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2020
From Stress to Happiness
Movie Self
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2020
Return to Gandhi Road
Movie himself
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2020
Upper Story: On the Road to Well-Being
Movie Self
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2020
My Year of Living Mindfully
Movie Himself
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2015
Unity
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2015
The Altruism Revolution
Movie Himself
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2011
Dharma Rising
Movie
- 2010
More credits
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2009
C à vous
TV show Self - Guest
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2009
The devotion of Matthieu Ricard
Movie himself
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2006
Salut les Terriens !
TV show Self - Guest
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2003
Wheel of Time
Movie Self
- 1995
