Matthieu Ricard is a French writer, photographer, translator and Buddhist monk who resides at Shechen Tennyi Dargyeling Monastery in Nepal.
Matthieu Ricard 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.
Since 1989, he has acted as the French interpreter for the 14th Dalai Lama, interpreting thousands of Tibetan texts to French and English.
This book is an eye opening (or shell we say mind opening) read on what constitutes happiness and how to attain it. At the end of the day isn’t that what we all want, to be happy?