Lama Lhakpa Yeshe is a Tibetan monk and refugee. He joined the Zigar monastery in East Tibet at the age of nine. After 25 years in Tibet, he fled to India to help in a monastery there and practiced meditation for eight years in the Himalayan caves. Lama Lhakpa Yeshe teaches Tibetan Buddhism - a unique form - all over the world and now lives in the UK. This is his first book.
Matthieu Ricard, a Buddhist monk, author, translator and photographer. Matthieu founded the humanitarian association Karuna-Shechen in 2000, which provides health care, education and social services for the underserved people of India, Nepal and Tibet. Please visit: http://karuna-shechen.org/