Transforming Business: An Interview with Michael Roach

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Transforming Business: An Interview with Michael Roach

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Michael Roach's guru suggested that he go into business

after he finished his studies in a Buddhist monastery. So he

did and subsequently helped build one of the most successful

diamond businesses around. As outlined in his book, "The

Diamond Cutter: The Buddha on Strategies for Managing Your

Business and Your Life," Roach attributes his success to

principles and practices from Buddhism. Just before Roach's

departure on a three-year retreat, Amazon.com's Brian Bruya

got in one last interview with the wunderkind monk on how to

make it in business and come out shining like a saint.

 

 

Transforming Business: An Interview with Michael Roach

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Amazon.com: After reading "The Diamond Cutter," I have so

many questions to ask. First, you're an honors graduate

from Princeton University, but you're also a Tibetan

Buddhist monk. Why, originally, did you turn your back on

all of the doors that must have been open to you to study

Tibetan Buddhism?

 

Michael Roach: Not long before I graduated from Princeton,

my mother died, and shortly afterward my father and

brother. So, although I could have gone on to be a professor

or something like that, I felt like I needed to get away and

think about life and death, and what makes these things

happen. I went to India, to where the Dalai Lama lives, and

began studying Buddhism. There also happened to be a

Mongolian monastery of Tibetan Buddhism in New Jersey that

was set up after World War II, and I studied there as

well. After about eight years of study, I was fluent enough

in Tibetan to go back to India and enter Sera Monastery, one

of the great universities of Tibetan Buddhism. After 21

years in total of study, I earned the geshe degree there.

 

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