Matthieu Ricard
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- February 15, 1946
- Birthplace
- 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 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.
Filmography
La saveur d’une vie 2025
as Self
- LIVING IS A DREAM
LIVING IS A DREAM 2024
Actor
Bhutan: Following in the Footsteps of Matthieu Ricard 2024
as himself
Viananda 2023
Actor
The Sweet Taste of Success 2022
as Matthieu Ricard
Who We Were 2021
as Self - Buddhist Monk
From Stress to Happiness 2020
as Self
Return to Gandhi Road 2020
as himself
Upper Story: On the Road to Well-Being 2020
as Self
My Year of Living Mindfully 2020
as Himself
Unity 2015
as Narrator (voice)
The Altruism Revolution 2015
as Himself
Dharma Rising 2011
Actor
Brilliant Moon: Glimpses of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche 2010
as Self
The devotion of Matthieu Ricard 2009
as himself
Wheel of Time 2003
as Self
- Spirit of Tibet: Journey to Enlightenment, the Life and World of Dilgo Kyentse Rinpoche
Spirit of Tibet: Journey to Enlightenment, the Life and World of Dilgo Kyentse Rinpoche 1995
Director
Credits from TMDB.