the principal teachings of buddhism

The spread of the teaching of Gautama Buddha began in India over twothousand years ago and reached perhaps its highest peak in the hidden mountain kingdom of Tibet, five centuries before our time. The great illuminary of this renaissance of the religion of total peace was Tsongkapa (1357-1419). He inspired a movement that at its height saw nearly a million monks and nuns living in thousands of cloisters around the country.

GESHE MICHAEL ROACH graduated with honors from Princeton University and received the Presidential Scholar Medallion from the president of the

United States. He is the first westerner in the 600-year history of

Sera Mey Tibetan Monastic University to be awarded the degree of Geshe,

or ＂Master of Philosophy.＂

Michael is the founder of the Asian Classics Input Project, which has digitally preserved thousands of ancient Asian books by training and equipping poor people in many countries during the past 30 years.

To pay for this work, he helped found Andin International

Diamond Corporation of New York, which reached US＄250 million in

sales and was sold to super-investor Warren Buffett in 2009. The Diamond

Cutter, his international business bestseller, tells the story of how he

used ancient Asian principles for success.

Michael founded the Diamond Cutter Management Training Institute for spreading this message to over 100,000 people each year, in more than 30 countries around the world.