Matthieu Ricard

Person · Open Library

Born

1946

Works

32

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

France

Active from

1946-02-15

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

808

Total plays

4,572

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

   · 2018 · cited 10,996x

2. Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

   · 2018 · cited 6,187x

3. Type, Density, and Location of Immune Cells Within Human Colorectal Tumors Predict Clinical Outcome

   · 2006 · cited 5,495x

4. Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock: 2016

   · 2017 · cited 5,011x

5. The zebrafish reference genome sequence and its relationship to the human genome

   · 2013 · cited 4,632x

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Quotes

• “We must distinguish between spirituality in general terms, which aims to make us better people, and religion. Adopting a religion remains optional, but becoming a better human being is essential.”
• “We continue to live in ignorance concerning the harm we inflict on animals; very few of us have ever visited an industrial breeding site or a slaughterhouse. We maintain a kind of moral schizophrenia that has us lavishing pampering our pets and at the same time planting our forks in the pigs that have been sent to the slaughter by the millions, even though they are in no way less conscious, less sensitive to pain, or less intelligent than our cats and dogs.”
• “The most striking quality that humans and animals have in common is the capacity to experience suffering. Why do we still blind ourselves, now at the beginning of the twenty-first century, to the immeasurable suffering that we inflict on animals, knowing that a great part of the pain that we cause them is neither necessary nor unavoidable? Certainly we should know that there is no moral justification for inflicting needless pain and death on any being.”
• “Kindness, altruistic love, and compassion are qualities that do not harmonize well with bias. Restricting the field of our compassion not only diminishes it quantitatively but also qualitatively. Applying our compassion only to certain beings, human beings in this case, makes it a lesser and a poorer thing.”
• “In the rich countries, depending on the species, 80 to 95 percent of the animals we eat are “produced” in industrial breeding operations where their short lives are an uninterrupted continuity of pain. All of that becomes possible the moment we begin to regard other living beings as objects for consumption or reserves of meat that we can deal with however we please.”
• “Working to spare animals the immense suffering they undergo does not diminish by one iota my determination to alleviate human misery. Needless suffering must be done away with wherever it is, in whatever form it takes. This is a war that has to be waged on all fronts, and it can be.”

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Key facts

Born

15 February 1946 ( 1946-02-15 ) (age 80), Aix-les-Bains , Savoie, France

Nationality

French, Nepalese

Education

Pasteur Institute , (PhD molecular genetics)

Occupation

Buddhist monk writer translator photographer

Religion

Buddhism

School

Vajrayana

Teacher

Kangyur Rinpoche , Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Website

MatthieuRicard.org

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Gender

male

Citizenship

France

Place of birth

Aix-les-Bains

Father

Jean-François Revel

Mother

Yahne Le Toumelin

Sibling

Nicolas Revel

Occupation

geneticist

Educated at

Lycée Janson-de-Sailly

Languages spoken

French

Native language

French

Religion

Tibetan Buddhism

Academic degree

Doctor of Philosophy

Doctoral advisor

François Jacob

Field of work

biochemistry

Official website

www.matthieuricard.org

Image

Portrait de Matthieu Ricard.jpg

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