Memorias de un monje budista

Matthieu Ricard was born in 1967, at the age of twenty-one, when he met his spiritual father in Darjeeling, India. Five years later he would leave his brilliant scientific career, for which he seemed destined, to move to a small cabin in the Himalayas. His first life, divided between the city and the countryside, had made him a young lover of nature and classical music, curious about spirituality and unveiling the mysteries of molecular biology. His second life took him along the path of Enlightenment, following in the footsteps of the great Tibetan Buddhists, receiving the teachings of Kangyour Rinpoche and Dilgo Khyentsé Rinpoche, the admired teacher of the Dalai Lama and an inexhaustible source of inspiration. In three decades his destiny would change completely, alternating meditation retreats in unknown places with multiple trips to Bhutan, India, Nepal, Tibet..., safeguarding the Tibetan spiritual heritage. Ricard, known as "the happiest man in the world", narrates in these pages his life, that of a wandering monk without material or geographical ties, always on the way to inner freedom and the good of others.