WRITER

Matthieu Ricard

1946 - Today

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Matthieu Ricard (French pronunciation: [matjø ʁikaʁ]; Nepali: माथ्यु रिका, born 15 February 1946) is a Nepalese French writer, photographer, translator and Buddhist monk who resides at Shechen Tennyi Dargyeling Monastery in Nepal. Matthieu Ricard grew up among the personalities and ideas of French intellectual circles. He received a PhD degree in molecular genetics from the Pasteur Institute in 1972. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Matthieu Ricard has received more than 658,272 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Matthieu Ricard is the 2,016th most popular writer (up from 2,086th in 2019), the 2,272nd most popular biography from France (up from 2,343rd in 2019) and the 287th most popular French Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 660k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.13

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.40

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Le moine et le philosophe
Doctrines, Buddhism, Comparative Philosophy
1998
Plaidoyer pour le bonheur
Buddhism, Religious aspects of Happiness, Religious life
2003
Un voyage immobile
Buddhism, Quotations, maxims, Pictorial works
2007
Les migrations animales
Animal migration
1968
Altruism
Compassion, Altruism, Empathy
2015

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Matthieu Ricard ranks 2,016 out of 7,302. Before him are Christopher Isherwood, Yuan Zhen, Rudolf Rocker, Telesilla, Julien Gracq, and Publius Clodius Thrasea Paetus. After him are Sophron, Richard Brautigan, Tanya Savicheva, Mariano José de Larra, Bella Akhmadulina, and Giovanni Francesco Straparola.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Matthieu Ricard ranks 193. Before him are Alpha Oumar Konaré, Lucien Van Impe, Ellison Onizuka, André Dussollier, Irena Szewińska, and Maria Bethânia. After him are Jean-Pierre Jarier, Claire Denis, Toquinho, Ismail Khan, Jean-Jacques Beineix, and Héctor Lavoe.

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In France

Among people born in France, Matthieu Ricard ranks 2,272 out of 6,770. Before him are René Caillié (1799), Joséphin Péladan (1858), Yann Tiersen (1970), Bernard Collomb (1930), Julien Gracq (1910), and Roland Petit (1924). After him are Sophie Blanchard (1778), Guy Marchand (1937), Jean-François Le Sueur (1760), Duke Alexander of Württemberg (1771), Hugo Lloris (1986), and Thomas Robert Bugeaud (1784).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Matthieu Ricard ranks 287. Before him are Elena Poniatowska (1932), Jacques Amyot (1513), Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786), Eugène Marin Labiche (1815), Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis (1746), and Julien Gracq (1910). After him are Jean Paulhan (1884), François Hotman (1524), Catherine Breillat (1948), Honoré d'Urfé (1567), Yasmina Reza (1959), and Sophie de Condorcet (1764).

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