Born in France, Matthieu Ricard is a Buddhist monk who left a career in cellular genetics to study Buddhism in the Himalayas over 45 years ago. He is an internationally bestselling author whose previous books have been translated into more than twenty languages. Ricard is celebrated at the World Economic Forum at Davos and at TED, where more than seven million people have viewed his talks. He lives in Nepal and devotes much of his time to humanitarian projects in Tibet, India, and Nepal.
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For the Sake of Another: Matthieu Ricard and the New Altruism
Matthieu Ricard offers a synthesis of prior texts that together offer overwhelming evidence that altruism does not run against the grain of nature....
