Matthieu Ricard has created
numerous books, including Tibet:
An Inner Journey, published by
Thames & Hudson. He has lived
in the Himalayas for almost
thirty years, and has been the
French interpreter for the Dalai
Lama since 1989.
80 colour illustrations
24.0 x 29.0cm
128pp
ISBN 978 0 500 543528
November
Motionless Journey
From a Hermitage in the Himalayas
Matthieu Ricard
A sublime photographic record of Matthieu Ricard’s year-long retreat
in the foothills of the Himalayas
Matthieu Ricard, a photographer and Buddhist monk, recently spent one
year in retreat at the Pema Ösel Hermitage (the place of the lotus of light)
near Kathmandu. Surrounded by spectacular scenery, nestled between
lush valleys and the towering Himalayas, Matthieu meditated daily,
waiting for the light that illuminates the path to awakening. Each day
from his sublime viewpoint, he contemplated the different subtleties of
light, at morning, before dusk and at evening. At the rhythm of one image
per week, he has thus immortalized the magnificent landscapes that
surrounded him. These photographs, taken from the hermitage’s terrace
and nearby, are the fruit of this long ‘wait without waiting’, and of the
elation of bearing witness to nature’s harmony mixing intimately with
the peacefulness of meditation.
Ricard’s Introduction ponders on the spiritual value of retreats and the
benefits of meditation
£ 22. 50
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