Ricard, M.

Ricard, M. on the DRL

Authors of English Works • Ordained (Monks and Nuns) • Translators

Matthieu Ricard

Alternate names

• Gelong Könchog Tendzin

Dates

Birth:	1946
Place of birth:	France

Tibetan calendar dates

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Rab Jyung

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Rab Jyung

About

Primary Affiliation (Workplace)

Shechen Monastery

Secondary Affiliation

Shechen Tennyi Dargyeling Monastery

Religious Affiliation

Tibetan Buddhism; Kagyu

Teachers

Kangyur Rinpoche · Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Biographical Information

Matthieu Ricard has lived and worked in the Himalayan region for forty years. He resides at Shechen Tenni Dargyeling Monastery in Nepal.
      Born in France in 1946 as the son of French philosopher Jean-Francois Revel and artist Yahne Le Toumelin, he grew up among the personalities and ideas of Paris’ intellectual circles. In 1972, after completing his doctoral thesis in biochemistry at the Institute Pasteur, he decided to forsake his scientific career and concentrate on Tibetan Buddhist studies. Since then, he has lived and studied in India, Bhutan and Nepal with some of the greatest living teachers of that tradition, Kangyur Rinpoche and Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. Matthieu is a Buddhist monk and, since 1989, he has acted as the French interpreter for His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
      The dialogue with his father, Jean-Francois Revel, The Monk and the Philosopher, was a best seller in Europe and is translated into twenty-one languages. His other books include: The Quantum and the Lotus, Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life’s Most Important Skill, and Why Meditate?
      For nearly four decades, he has been photographing the spiritual masters, the landscapes and the people of the Himalayas. He is the author and photographer of Buddhist Himalayas, Journey to Enlightenment, Tibet: An Inner Journey, Monk Dancers of Tibet, Motionless Journey, and Bhutan, Land of Peace. He also translated several books from Tibetan into English and French, including The Life of Shabkar, The Autobiography of a Tibetan Yogin (Snow Lion).
      Henri Cartier-Bresson has said of his work, “Matthieu’s spiritual life and his camera are one and from this springs these images, fleeting and eternal.”
      He is a member of the Mind and Life Institute, which is dedicated to collaborative research between scientists and Buddhist scholars and meditators. He is involved in the research on the effect of mind training and meditation on the brain at various Universities in the USA and Europe.
      Through his writings and photographs, Matthieu Ricard infuses the dialogue between Tibetan Buddhism – its culture, people and religion – and the West with understanding, intelligence and compassion.
(Source Accessed July 21, 2020)

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• Ricard, M. on the DRL
• Ricard, M. on the LIB
• Ricard, M. on the RTZ
• Ricard, M. on the BNW

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Full Name

Matthieu Ricard (Gelong Könchog Tendzin) Könchog Tendzin Konchog Tendzin Gelong Konchog Tendzin

Affiliation

Shechen Tennyi Dargyeling Monastery in Nepal

Kangyur Rinpoche and Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Tsadra Foundation Grantee

Other Information

Ricard-2014-Timeline of Buddhist Masters

Homepage: www.mattieuricard.org

Wikipedia: Mattheiu Ricard

The Kagyu school traces its origin to the eleventh-century translator Marpa, who studied in India with Nāropa. Marpa's student Milarepa trained Gampopa, who founded the first monastery of the Kagyu order. As many as twelve subtraditions grew out from there, the best known being the Karma Kagyu, the Drikung, and the Drukpa.

Refers to something that is taught for a specific reason, rather than because it is entirely true.

Along with Madhyamaka, it was one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Asaṅga and Vasubandhu around the fourth century CE, many of its central tenets have roots in the Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra and the so-called third turning of the dharma wheel (see tridharmacakrapravartana).

Along with Yogācāra, it is one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Nāgārjuna around the second century CE, it is rooted in the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, though its initial exposition was presented in Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā.

The state of being devoid of that which is wholly different rather than being void of its own nature. The term is generally used to refer to the ultimate, or buddha-nature, being empty of other phenomena such as adventitious defiling emotions but not empty of its true nature.

The state of being empty of self, which references the lack of inherent existence in relative phenomena.

Tsen Khawoche's "meditative tradition" of exegesis of the Uttaratantra; it is one of two major Tibetan traditions of exegesis, both stemming from students of Sajjana.