Mr. Barash is an evolutionary biologist and professor of psychology at the University of Washington. His most recent book is “Buddhist Biology: Ancient Eastern Wisdom Meets Modern Western Science.”

The word “altruism” was coined by Auguste Comte, the 19th-century social philosopher …

A conversation with Buddhist monk-author Matthieu Ricard.

http://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2015/06/08/…

Molecular biologist-turned Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard shares his thoughts on the meaning of happiness, the power of mediation and why the world needs altruism more than ever.

http://med.stanford.edu/news/multimedia/one-to-one.html…

CANDID: “It wasn’t like slamming any doors,” Matthieu Ricard says of his decision to leave the scientific life for the contemplative one.

By Esther Addley in Gulf Times.

http://www.gulf-times.com/culture/…

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The Seminar on “the Animal and Us” was held on 7 February 2014. Here is the articles in the French press about the event:

http://ecolo-ethik.org/retombees-presse-du-colloque-nous-et-lanimal/…

Matthieu Ricard was at th eWorld Economic Forum, in Davos.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-23/el-erian-told-to-chill-by-monk-teaching-davos-meditation.html…

Matthieu Ricard runs a meditation class at the WEF in Davos.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/24/mattieu-ricard-buddhist-m_n_4658712.html…

SHECHEN, NEPAL – “Cooperation,” the Harvard University biologist Martin Nowak has written, is “the architect of creativity throughout evolution, from cells to multicellular creatures to anthills to villages to cities.” As mankind now tries to solve new, global challenges, we …