Matthieu Ricard, the world’s happiest man. Photo: François à L’Imprévu Matthieu Ricard, a 66-year old Tibetan monk and geneticist, produces brain gamma waves—linked to consciousness, attention, ...

Matthieu Ricard: Although one finds in the Buddhist literature many treatises on “traditional sciences”—medicine, cosmology, botanic, logic, and so on—Tibetan Buddhism has not endeavored to the same ...

This week, scientists named a Buddhist monk, and aide to the Dalai Lama, the world's happiest man. His secret? Meditation. Neuroscientists wired up 66-year-old Frenchman Matthieu Ricard's skull with ...

Who is the happiest man in the world? If you Google it, the name "Matthieu Ricard" pops up. Matthieu Ricard, 69, is a Tibetan Buddhist monk originally from France who has been called "the world's ...

Matthieu Ricard, happiness guru, has a new book, Why Meditate, a follow-up to his earlier how-to manual, Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life’s Most Important Skill. He came to town to promote both ...

French buddhist monk, writer and photographer, Matthieu Ricard speaks on April 27, 2015 in Paris. (ENZO TRIBOUILLARD/AFP/Getty Images) A harmonic convergence of sorts took place on Tuesday, June 16th, ...

Being happy is not a competition. Or at least, I thought it wasn’t. But Google tells me there is a man who has won this race and been named the happiest person in the world. In fact, there has been ...

For millennia, philosophers, writers and artists have sought the key to human happiness. A Buddhist monk and former cell biologist, Ricard offers his own musings about the nature of happiness and tips ...

This documentary examines the life of Matthieu Ricard who left a promising career as a geneticist in France to pursue his passion for spiritual growth More than 30 years later Ricard is a noted ...

For more than a decade, Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard has been called "happiest man in the world." He shares his tips with TODAY. If being kinder is a goal for you, Matthieu Ricard has some good news.