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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 twenty-one 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 Jean-François Revel and artist Yahne Le Toumelin regularly found himself in the company of intellectuals and artists such as Luis Buñuel Henri Cartier-Bresson 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 full-color photographs some of which are Ricard’s own Notebooks of a Wandering Monk charts Ricard’s 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 well-lived life.

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