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108 sourires, published by Editions de la Martinière
Matthieu Ricard
A true smile can convey joy, contentment, benevolence, amusement, relief, rejoicing, buoyancy, inner peace, and many other moods. The uncomplicated joy of the Tibetan people’s everyday life is what Matthieu Ricard shares with us today through his new published work. 108 sourires, with its smiles from children, nuns, hermits, and the young and old, is a veritable ray of sunshine. Smiles and Buddhist spirituality come together around the number 108, sacred in the Indo-Buddhist world. In his introduction, Matthieu Ricard describes the 18-smile typology established by his friend Paul Ekman, an eminent specialist of emotions and facial expressions, and provides a scientific resonance to this panorama of smiles.
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Why Meditate?
Matthieu Ricard
Learn the Art of Meditation:
Although meditation is a lifelong process even for the wisest, Why Meditate? demonstrates that by practicing it on a daily basis we can change our understanding of ourselves and the world around us. In this brilliant short book and the accompanying CD, Ricard talks us through the theory, spirituality, and practical aspects of meditation. He illustrates each stage of his teaching with examples, leading readers deeper into their own practice.
Through his experience as a monk, his close reading of sacred texts, and his knowledge of the Buddhist masters, Matthieu Ricard shows the significant benefits that meditation, based on selfless love and compassion, can bring to each of us.
Hay House, New York, USA $15.95 • CAN $18.95, ISBN 978-1-4019-2663-2
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The Art of Meditation
Matthieu Ricard
Although meditation is a life-long process even for the wisest, The Art of Meditation demonstrates that by practicing it on a daily basis we can change our understanding of ourselves and the world around us. In this inspiring book, the author talks us through the theory, spirituality and practical aspects of meditation. He illustrates each stage of his teaching with practical exercises and sources of inspiration, leading each reader deeper into their own practice. This book demonstrates the significant benefits that meditation, based on selfless love and compassion, can bring to each of us.
The Skill of Happiness
Matthieu Ricard
Audio CD
"By happiness I mean here a deep sense of flourishing that arises from an exceptionally healthy mind. This is not a mere pleasurable feeling, a fleeting emotion, or a mood, but an optimal state of being. Happiness is also a way of interpreting the world, since while it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it" - Matthieu Ricard
Bhutan: The Land of Serenity
Matthieu Ricard
Tucked away between China and India in the heart of the Himalayas, Bhutan remains a uniquely distinct country. Few photographers have been granted permission to reside in this long-inaccessible kingdom, now a democracy, where life quietly unfolds to the rhythm of traditions amidst the magnificent, unspoilt landscape. Nearly thirty years ago, Matthieu Ricard, a Buddhist monk and photographer, went to Bhutan to study with Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, a highly revered Tibetan Buddhist master.He spent eight years in Bhutan with him, and has continued to return to the 'land of the thunder dragon' - or Druk-yul as Bhutan is known in Bhutanese - throughout his life, discovering on each occasion more of its invaluable treasures. As a Buddhist monk, he has not only witnessed private religious ceremonies, the life of a great Buddhist master, and exceptional works of art, but has also participated in the daily lives of local villagers. His encounters and experiences are recorded here in this exceptionally beautiful book, a sublime voyage to the heart of Bhutan, a land where spirituality and daily life are intimately linked.
Thames and Hudson 2008
978-0-500-51448-1
Motionless Journey: From a Hermitage in the Himalayas
Matthieu Ricard
Matthieu Ricard, a photographer and Buddhist monk, recently spent one year in the solitude of a hermitage in the mountains near Kathmandu. Nestled between lush valleys and the towering Himalayas, each day he quietly contemplated the subtleties of light from before sunrise until the evening after nightfall. These sublime photographs “taken at the rhythm of one or two images per week” are the fruit of this long “wait without waiting”, and of the elation of bearing witness to nature’s harmony intertwined with the peacefulness of meditation.
Thames and Hudson 2007
The Heart of Compassion: The Thirty-seven Verses on the Practice of a Bodhisattva
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche; Translated by the Padmakara Translation Group
The extraordinary set of instructions, a training manual composed in the fourteenth century by the Ngulchu Thogme Zangpo, is explained in detail by one of the great Tibetan Buddhist masters of the twentieth century, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. Many generations of Buddhist practitioners of all traditions have been inspired by these teachings. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche’s commentary on this classic text is his most extensive recorded teaching on Mahayana practice.
Shambhala 2007
The Great Medicine That Conquers Clinging to the Notion of Reality
Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche; Foreword by Matthieu Ricard
Using the poetic verses of Shechen Gyaltsap Gyurme Pema Namgyal as a guide, Shechen Rabjam leads us in exploring the foundation of the awakened mind, the view of emptiness, and the inner workings of loving-kindness and bodhichitta. Rabjam Rinpoche’s teachings speak out from his heart in a simple, unpretentious, yet powerful way.
Shambhala 2007
Tibet: An Inner Journey
Matthieu Ricard
Matthieu Ricard has been living in the Himalayas for over thirty years. In this moving photographic journey, Ricard takes readers into the heart of Buddhist spirituality and into the daily lives and festivals of the people of the Tibetan interior. The reader follows pilgrimages made by the great lamas of eastern Tibet; bears witness to the artistry of wood-engravers at the gigantic Derge printing workshops; and meets hermit monks in extremely remote regions. These experiences and many others are recorded here in 191 color photographs.
Thames and Hudson 2006
The Hundred Verses of Advice
Padampa Sangye and Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche; Translated by the Padmakara Translation Group
This book by eleventh-century scholar and teacher Padampa Sangye, accompanied by commentary by Dilgo Khyentse, offers guidance for all meditators who are trying to live in the workaday world and maintain their practice of the Buddhist teachings.
Shambhala 2006
Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill
Matthieu Ricard
In this revolutionary look at happiness, Matthieu Ricard draws from works of poetry and fiction, Buddhist thought, contemporary Western psychological and scientific research, and personal experience. He weaves an inspirational and forward account of how we can begin to rethink our realities in a fast-moving modern world. With lessons and exercises that blaze a clear path for readers, this is an eloquent and ground-breaking guide to a happier life.
Little Brown 2006
The Quantum and the Lotus
Matthieu Ricard and Trinh Xuan Thuan
When Matthieu Ricard and Trinh Xuan Thuan, a professor of astronomy at the University of Virginia and the author of several popular science books, met, they began a discussion on the remarkable connections between the teachings of Buddhism and science. The stimulating journey of discovery is re-created in this book, written in the style of a dialogue between friends.
Crown Books 2004
Monk Dancers of Tibet
Matthieu Ricard
In glorious photos and illuminating text, Matthieu Ricard reveals the meanings and significance of sacred Tibetan Buddhist dance in which each gesture and movement is a meditation in itself and is central to the teachings of tantric Buddhism.
Shambhala 2003
Buddhist Himalayas
Danielle Föllmi, Olivier Föllmi, and Matthieu Ricard
A spectacular photographic journey to the beauty of the majestic Himalayan countryside, to the Tibetan people - spiritual masters and humble shepherds alike - and to their sacred places This harmonious visual mosaic of the richness of a mountaintop civilization is enhanced by texts by eminent specialists on Tibetan culture as well as reflections from political and spiritual leaders of the Himalayan world. Offering a perspective from both within and outside Tibetan society, each of the twenty-one authors -from the noted photographer Galen Rowell to the Dalai Lama- provides a window onto the Buddhist Himalayas and the people who inhabit this magical land.
Harry N. Abrams 2002 / 2008
The Life of Shabkar: The Autobiography of a Tibetan Yogin
Shabkar; Translated by Matthieu Ricard
The autobiography of Lama Shabkar, a work known and loved throughout Tibet, is second only to that of Milarepa in popularity. It is an inspiring account told in verse and prose of the life of a wandering hermit from childhood until his ultimate spiritual realization.
Snow Lion Publications 2001
The Spirit of Tibet
Matthieu Ricard
An inspiring and beautiful glimpse into the life and world of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche as seen through the camera lens of Matthieu Ricard, a photographer and practicing Buddhist monk who was Rinpoche’s personal assistant for the last fourteen years of his life.
Aperture 2001
The Wish-Fulfilling Jewel
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche; Translated by the Padmakara Translation Group
Based on the teachings of the great eighteenth-century visionary Rigdzin Jigme Lingpa, the instructions in this book focus on the devotional practices of Guru Yoga, “merging with the mind of the guru.”
Shambhala 1999
The Monk and the Philosopher
Jean-François Revel and Matthieu Ricard
A dialogue between father and son: a world-famous philosopher and pillar of French intellectual life and his son, a scientist who gave up his career to become a Buddhist monk, discuss the meaning of life. They engage East with West, ideas with life, and science with humanities, providing wisdom on how to enrich the way we live our lives.
Schocken Books 1998
The Excellent Path to Enlightenment
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche; Translated by the Padmakara Translation Group
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche explains a key practice text on the Vajrayana preliminaries. Clear, direct and personal, these instructions illuminate the heart of Vajrayana practice.
Snow Lion Publications 1996
The Heart Treasure of the Enlightened Ones
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche; Translated by the Padmakara Translation Group
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche's commentary on a masterful teaching written by Patrul Rinpoche (nineteenth century) challenges us to critically examine our materialistic preoccupations and provides practical guidance in following the Buddhist path, starting from the most basic motivation and culminating in the direct experience of reality.
Shambhala 1993