Geshe Michael Roach
Geshe Michael Roach and Christie
McNally have written five books \
The Garden, The Diamond Cutter: the
Buddha on Managing Your Business
and Your Life, The Tibetan Book of
Yoga, Essential Yoga Sutra, and How Yoga
Works: Healing Yourself and Others through
Yoga\ with a sixth book soon to be released.
They have translated
dozens of ancient Sanskrit
and Tibetan texts on Buddhism and Yoga
Philosophy, usually working
directly from antique
folios newly discovered in
libraries hidden in the
heart of Asia.
She graduated from
New York University
with a degree in Comparative
Literature. He is an
Hono r s g r a d ua t e o f
Princeton University and
received the Presidential
Scholar medal at the
White House.
She has trained at Tibetan monasteries in
Nepal and India and has studied yoga extensively
with some of the greatest Indian, Tibetan,
and western masters.
He is the first
American to pass the rigorous test for the title
of Geshe, or Master of Buddhism, at Sera Mey
Tibetan Monastery, after 20 years of study in
the yoga and philosophy of India and Tibet.
They have completed a traditional Tibetan
Buddhist three-year deep meditation retreat
and are planning a second three-year retreat
beginning in 2010.
They have also done numerous
one and two-month formal, silent retreats.
In 2003, they founded Diamond Mountain
Retreat Center and University, where they
serve as professors and spiritual directors. Located
on 1000 acres in southern Arizona, it
is modeled on an ancient Buddhist educational
system. All classes are free of charge,
and every day students
have meditation, quizzes
and traditional Tibetan debate in the style of
Socrates.
As a young monk,
Geshe Michaelfs Teacher
instructed him to take a
job in the diamond industry.
Rising from messenger
boy to Senior Vice
President of Andin International,
one of the
world's largest diamond
and jewellery firms, he
worked with the company's
founders to build
annual revenues exceeding
$100 million. He was a Buddhist sage on
the inside and a normal American businessman
on the outside.
Geshe Michael and Christie currently
spend most of their time teaching worldwide.
Last year alone, they taught in Taipei, Shanghai,
Taiwan, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Mexico,
Argentina, Bahamas, Canada, New York,
Austin, Houston and Tucson, attracting thousands
of people. For fifteen weeks a year, they
live and teach at Diamond Mountain in Arizona
