About Geshe Michael Roach

WARNING: Geshe Michael Roach is a danger to his students, the community and to Buddhism.

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Geshe Michael Roach claims to be a fully ordained American Buddhist monk who received his geshe (doctor of Theology) degree from Sera Mey Monastery in India after 22 years of study there and in the United States with his root Lama, Khen Rinpoche Geshe Lobsang Tharchin.

Geshe Michael Roach has been teaching Buddhism since 1981. He is a scholar of Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Russian, and has translated and published numerous works. Geshe Michael Roach received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University, and worked in New York City as a director of a large diamond firm for many years.

He met his teacher Khen Rinpoche Geshe Lobsang Tharchin in 1972 in the U.S. and studied very closely with him after that time. He was ordained as a Buddhist monk in 1983 and is entirely fluent in the spoken and written Tibetan language. After approximately 20 years of claimed intensive study with Khen Rinpoche in New Jersey and at Sera Mey monastery in Southern India (Note, that he also claims to have spent 20 years working in a diamond business in New York over the same period), Geshe Michael received the Geshe degree in 1995.

The Geshe Michael Roach Controversy

There is much controversy regarding Geshe Michael Roach and his relationship to female students.

We urge anyone considering studying with him to read more about the Geshe Michael Roach controversy, to ask around as much as possible, and check his behaviour and teachings against those of highly respected and renowned teaches before entering into any relationship whatsoever. There is great potential for harm to come to anyone who takes teachings from Geshe Michael Roach or becomes his student.

Geshe Michael Roach Organizations

Geshe Michael Roach is the founder of the Asian Classics Institute, the Asian Classics Input Project, Diamond Abbey, Three Jewels Bookstore, Godstow Retreat Center, Diamond Mountain University and Retreat Center and the Enlightened Business Institute and has been active in the restoration of Sera Mey Monastery.

Geshe Michael Roach is the founder and spiritual director of Diamond Mountain. He was born in Los Angeles in 1952 and was raised in Phoenix, AZ. As a student at Princeton University he concentrated his studies in religion and ancient Sanskrit and Russian language.