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20
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Actor
Matthieu Ricard
Directing
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Movies: 16Series: 4
TMDB ID: 1109536
IMDb ID: nm1732997
Known for: Directing
Born: February 15, 1946
Age: 80
Place of birth: Aix-les-Bains, Savoie, Rhône-Alpes, France
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 2003 - 2025
Years active: 23
Average TMDB rating: 6.74
Wikidata: Q732418
Biography
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.
Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Matthieu Ricard.
as Self
La saveur d’une vie
2025 • Movie
LIVING IS A DREAM
2024 • Movie
as himself
Bhutan: Following in the Footsteps of Matthieu Ricard
2024 • Movie
Viananda
2023 • Movie
as Matthieu Ricard
The Sweet Taste of Success
2022 • Movie
as Self - Buddhist Monk
Who We Were
2021 • Movie
as Self
From Stress to Happiness
2020 • Movie
as himself
Return to Gandhi Road
2020 • Movie
as Self
Upper Story: On the Road to Well-Being
2020 • Movie
as Himself
My Year of Living Mindfully
2020 • Movie
as Narrator (voice)
Unity
2015 • Movie
as Himself
The Altruism Revolution
2015 • Movie
Dharma Rising
2011 • Movie
as Self
Brilliant Moon: Glimpses of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
2010 • Movie
as himself
The devotion of Matthieu Ricard
2009 • Movie
as Self
Wheel of Time
2003 • Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Matthieu Ricard.
