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Altruism: The Power of Compassion to Change Yourself and the World
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Altruism: The Power of Compassion to Change Yourself and the World Hardcover - 2015

by Ricard, Matthieu

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  • Title Altruism: The Power of Compassion to Change Yourself and the World
  • Author Ricard, Matthieu
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Tra
  • Condition UsedGood
  • Pages 864
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Little Brown and Company, New York
  • Date 2015-06
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 5D400000A0BL_ns
  • ISBN 9780316208246 / 0316208248
  • Weight 2.55 lbs (1.16 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.5 x 6.5 x 2 in (24.13 x 16.51 x 5.08 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Empathy, Altruism
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015935986
  • Dewey Decimal Code 171.8

About the author

Matthieu Ricard is a Buddhist monk, an author, translator, and photographer. He has lived, studied, and worked in the Himalayan region for over forty years. The son of French philosopher Jean-Franois Revel and artist Yahne Le Toumelin, Matthieu was born in France in 1946 and grew up among the personalities and ideas of Paris' intellectual and artistic circles. He earned a Ph.D. degree in cell genetics at the renowned Institut Pasteur under the Nobel Laureate Francois Jacob.

In 1967, he traveled to India to meet great spiritual masters from Tibet. After completing his doctoral thesis in 1972, he decided to concentrate on Buddhist studies and practice. Since then, he has lived in India, Bhutan, and Nepal and studied with some of the greatest teachers of that tradition. He is the author of several books including The Monk and the Philosopher, a dialogue with his father; The Quantum and the Lotus, a dialogue with the astrophysicist Trinh Xuan Thuan; Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill; and Why Meditate? His books have been translated into over twenty languages.