Geshe Michael Roach

American-born, Geshe Michael Roach became a Tibetan Buddhist monk before entering commercial life as one of the founders of Andin International Diamond Corporation, a jewellery business launched with fifty thousand dollars in starting capital. The combination — monastic training alongside direct involvement in building a company — shaped a body of teaching grounded in both classical Buddhist texts and hands-on entrepreneurial experience. His central premise, drawn from that dual position, is that the mechanics of karma describe how value actually moves through businesses and relationships.

His best-known book, The Diamond Cutter, layers a translation of selections from the Diamond Sutra alongside Tibetan commentary and his own teaching, using Andin's growth — from fifty thousand dollars to over a hundred million in annual sales — as worked example. A subsequent book, Karmic Management, compressed the argument into eight steps: that helping suppliers, customers, and even competitors become successful is the operative mechanism of durable business results. Both works reframe Buddhist logic not as metaphor but as a functional account of cause and effect in commercial life.

In 2003, Roach founded Diamond Cutter Press, which continues to publish both original teaching and a planned series of 108 classical texts — the Diamond Cutter Classics — translated by Roach and a dedicated team. Titles include How Yoga Works, The King of the Dharma, and a twentieth-anniversary edition of The Diamond Cutter itself. The translation project, still ongoing, represents the longer-term vehicle for his work: making a body of Tibetan Buddhist literature available in forms intended for general readers rather than specialist scholars.