The Buddhist monk and author Matthieu Ricard may be the world’s “happiest man,” according to science

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 …