Notebooks of a Wandering Monk

Resumen del libro

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 twentyone, 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 JeanFrançois Revel and artist Yahne Le Toumelin, regularly found himself in the company of intellectuals and artists such as Luis Buñuel, Henri CartierBresson, 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 fullcolor photographs, some of which are Ricardx{0026}rsquos own, Notebooks of a Wandering Monk charts Ricardx{0026}rsquos 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 welllived life.

Biografía del autor

Matthieu Ricard (Aix-les-Bains, 1946) es doctor en Biología Molecular por el Instituto Pasteur de París. En los años sesenta abandonó su exitosa carrera científica, tutelada por el premio Nobel François Jacob, para convertirse al budismo. Ordenado monje en 1978, se ha convertido en el gran embajador del budismo en occidente y acompaña con frecuencia al Dalai Lama en sus viajes como intérprete. x{0026}lt;br Es autor de los best sellers x{0026}lt;i En defensa de la felicidadx{0026}lt;/i (2011), x{0026}lt;i El monje y el filósofox{0026}lt;/i (2016), escrito junto con su padre Jean- François Revel, y x{0026}lt;i ¡Viva la libertad!x{0026}lt;/i (2020), entre otros libros. x{0026}lt;br Reside en el Himalaya desde 1972, en el monaterio Shechen Tennyi Dargyeling en Nepal. Desde allí, dedica sus esfuerzos y los beneficios económicos de sus publicaciones a proyectos humanitarios en la India, Nepal y el Tíbet con su asociación Karuna-Shechen.