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2/16/04

SLU GALLERY EXHIBITS PHOTOS OF TIBET

CANTON – "Journey To Enlightenment," an exhibition of over 40 photographs 
by Matthieu Ricard, will be in the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery at St. Lawrence 
University from February 26 through April 3.
	Ricard, an internationally respected writer, translator and photographer 
highly regarded for his scholarship and knowledge of Buddhism and Tibetan culture, 
has lived and worked in the Himalayan region for the last 30 years. Born in France 
in 1946, he grew up in the intellectual and artistic circles of Paris studying 
classical music, ornithology and photography. After completing his doctoral thesis 
in 1972 in molecular biology at the renowned Institut Pasteur, Ricard decided 
to forsake his scientific career and concentrate on Tibetan Buddhist studies. He 
lived in the Himalayas with the greatest living teachers of that tradition and 
became the disciple and attendant of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, one of the most 
eminent Tibetan masters of the 20th century. Ricard, a Buddhist monk, resides 
at Shechen Monastery in Nepal. Since 1989, he has often accompanied His 
Holiness the Dalai Lama to France as his personal interpreter.  
	For three decades, Ricard has photographed the spiritual masters, 
landscapes and people of Tibet, Nepal, India, and Bhutan. He is the author 
and photographer of Journey to Enlightenment (Aperture, 1996; republished in 
2001 as The Spirit of Tibet), and he has collaborated with Olivier and Danielle 
Föllmi on Buddhist Himalayas (Abrams, 2002). Henri Cartier-Bresson said of his 
work, "Matthieu's spiritual life and his camera are one, from which springs 
these images, fleeting and eternal."  
      The photographs in this exhibition were loaned by Aperture Foundation, 
New York, and by the artist.
      For more information or to arrange individual or group tours, contact 
the gallery at 315-229-5174.

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