The Monk and the Philosopher: A Father and Son Discuss the Meaning of Life

Ricard, Matthieu

ISBN 10: 0805241620 / ISBN 13: 9780805241624

Verlag: Schocken Books, 1999

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Monk and the Philosopher: A Father and Son Discuss the Meaning of Life
• Verlag: Schocken Books
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0805241620
• ISBN-13: 9780805241624
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: Good

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Inhaltsangabe

Discuss consciousness, free will, the value of progress, the causes of war, and ways to approach living

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jean-Francois Revel, a member of the Academie Francaise, was born in 1924. He studied and taught philosophy but abandoned university teaching to concentrate on writing. He was editor for many years of the influential political weekly L'Express. His books, including the best-seller Without Marx or Jesus and How Democracies Perish, have gained worldwide recognition.

Matthieu Ricard lives in the Shechen Monastery in Nepal. Born in France in 1946, he received his doctorate in molecular biology from the Institut Pasteur in Paris. In 1972 he decided to forsake his scientific career to better concentrate on his Buddhist studies, which he had begun years earlier. He has published Journey to Enlightenment, a book of photographs about his teacher, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (one of the mos