Director
Matthieu Ricard
80 years · Aix-les-Bains, Savoie, Rhône-Alpes, France · 15 films
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.
Best known for
Filmography 15
La saveur d’une vie
2025 · Self
Bhutan: Following in the Footsteps of Matthieu Ricard
2024 · himself
Viananda
2023 · Actor
On Amazon Prime Video
The Sweet Taste of Success
2022 · Matthieu Ricard
Who We Were
2021 · Self - Buddhist Monk
From Stress to Happiness
2020 · Self
On Amazon Prime Video
Return to Gandhi Road
2020 · himself
Upper Story: On the Road to Well-Being
2020 · Self
My Year of Living Mindfully
2020 · Himself
On Kanopy
Unity
2015 · Narrator (voice)
On Fandango at Home Free
The Altruism Revolution
2015 · Himself
On Kanopy
Dharma Rising
2011 · Actor
On Gaia Amazon Channel
Brilliant Moon: Glimpses of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
2010 · Self
On Kanopy
The devotion of Matthieu Ricard
2009 · himself
Wheel of Time
2003 · Self
On Plex