The Buddhist monk and author Matthieu Ricard may be the world’s “happiest man,” according to science
Matthieu Ricard is a Buddhist monk and a best-selling author. Occasionally he’s called “the happiest man alive.”Wikimedia Commons • Matthieu Ricard was born into an intellectual French family; his mother was an abstract painter and his father a philosopher. • After earning a doctorate in molecular genetics at the Pasteur Institute, he moved to the …