Happiness
A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill
$42.63
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
1 January 2007
Summary
In this groundbreaking book, Matthieu Ricard makes a passionate case for happiness as a goal that deserves as least as much energy as any other in our lives.
Wealth? Fitness? Career success? How can we possibly place these above true and lasting well-being? Drawing from works of fiction and poetry, Western philosophy, Buddhist beliefs, scientific research, and personal experience, Ricard weaves an inspirational and forward-looking account of how we can begin to rethink our realities i…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780316167253 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0316167258 |
| Author: | Matthieu Ricard, Daniel Goleman |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown & Company |
| Imprint: | Little, Brown & Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 1 January 2007 |
| Weight: | 249g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 140mm x 19mm |
About The Author
Matthieu Ricard
Matthieu Ricard is a Buddhist monk, an author, translator, and photographer. He has lived, studied, and worked in the Himalayan region for over forty years. The son of French philosopher Jean-François Revel and artist Yahne Le Toumelin, Matthieu was born in France in 1946 and grew up among the personalities and ideas of Paris’ intellectual and artistic circles. He earned a Ph.D. degree in cell genetics at the renowned Institut Pasteur under the Nobel Laureate Francois Jacob.
In 1967, he traveled to India to meet great spiritual masters from Tibet. After completing his doctoral thesis in 1972, he decided to concentrate on Buddhist studies and practice. Since then, he has lived in India, Bhutan, and Nepal and studied with some of the greatest teachers of that tradition. He is the author of several books including The Monk and the Philosopher, a dialogue with his father; The Quantum and the Lotus, a dialogue with the astrophysicist Trinh Xuan Thuan; Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life’s Most Important Skill; and Why Meditate? His books have been translated into over twenty languages.
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