Patrick Carré, born in 1952, is a French sinologist, Tibetologist, translator, essayist and writer. In 1981, he defended a thesis on the Hanshan poems at Inalco. His work includes a considerable number of translations from Chinese and Tibetan of Buddhist poems and major texts of the Buddhism of the Great Vehicle (Mahâyâna). He is the author of six novels, two of which have won awards. Director of the ‘Trésors du Bouddhisme’ collection published by Fayard, he is a member of the Padmakara translation committee attached to the Centre d’études bouddhiques de Chanteloube at Saint-Léon-sur-Vézère in Dordogne, near where he lives.