Michael Roach

Quick Facts

Full Name	Michael Roach
Occupation	Translator
Date Of Birth	Dec 17, 1952(1952-12-17)
Age	72
Birthplace	Los Angeles
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Michael Roach Biography

Michael Roach is one of the most popular and richest Translator who was born on December 17, 1952 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

Michael Roach (born December 17, 1952) is an American non-traditional teacher of Tibetan Buddhism. Ordained as a Gelugpa monk, he was the first American to receive the Geshe degree at Sera Monastery in Tibet. He has started a number of businesses and organizations, written books about Buddhism, and translated Tibetan Buddhist teachings.

In 1981, Khen Rinpoche, the teacher of Michael Roach, instructed him to set up a business in Manhattan to help Tibetan refugees. Since then, Michael Roach has helped to found and develop the corporation Andin International, a jewelry manufacturer based in New York. The activities of Andin International started with a loan of $50,000 and three employees. By the time Michael Roach left the firm in 1999 as vice president, the company’s annual turnover was $100 million per year. In 2009 Andin achieved a turnover of more than 200 million dollars, and was acquired by Richline Group Warren Buffett. He used the money from his work to create funds to finance various projects, such as food fund Sera Mey.

Michael Roach Net Worth

Michael Roach is one of the richest Translator from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Michael Roach 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Michael Roach was born in Los Angeles, California in 1952 to Episcopalian parents, and grew up in Phoenix, Arizona. After his high school graduation, he received the Presidential Scholars Medallion from U.S. President Richard Nixon, then attended Princeton University in 1972. He traveled to India in 1973 to seek Buddhist instruction, while still in college. He returned to the United States and received a scholarship to return to study in India in 1974. While in India, Roach learned about a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in New Jersey led by a Mongolian-born lama, Sermey Khensur Lobsang Tharchin. Roach returned to Princeton, living at the monastery from 1975 to 1981. In the year before his graduation in 1975, both of his parents died due to cancer and then his brother committed suicide. In 1983 he was ordained as a Gelugpa Buddhist monk at Sera Monastery in South India, where he would periodically travel and study. In 1995, he became the first American to qualify for the Geshe degree.

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Who is Michael Roach Dating?

According to our records, Michael Roach married to Christie McNally. As of December 1, 2023, Michael Roach’s is not dating anyone.

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In 1996, Christie McNally became Roach’s student and they began a “spiritual partnership” in which they took vows that included never being more than 15 feet apart, eating from the same plate, reading the same books together. They were married in a Christian ceremony in Rhode Island in 1998. The marriage was kept secret. When news of the marriage emerged in 2003, Roach explained to the New York Times that they had wished to honor their Christian heritage and that he wanted McNally to be entitled to his possessions if something happened to him.

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Jay Ranked on the list of most popular Translator. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Michael Roach celebrates birthday on December 17 of every year.

From 2000 to 2003, Roach organized and led a three-year silent retreat in the Arizona desert with five other participants including another American Buddhist, Christie McNally, with whom Roach had a complex and controversial relationship. The retreat was run along guidelines modified for modern times from ancient Tibetan traditions.

Where is Christie McNally today?

McNally disappeared to Kathmandu after Thorson passed away, before allegedly finding sanctuary at a Buddhist retreat in the Bahamas. Little is known of her whereabouts today. Sources close to McNally have told Carney that she currently lives in New York City , but she remains elusive.

Where is Geshe Michael Roach?

Geshe Michael Roach
Education| Princeton University Sera Monastery Gemological Institute of America Inc.
Senior posting
Based in| Phoenix, Arizona
Website| geshemichaelroach.com

What is vajrayogini?

Vajrayogini, also called Vajravarahi, in Vajrayana (Tantric Buddhism), female embodiment of the cognitive function leading to Buddhahood. Vajrayana emphasizes experience over speculation but uses the terms of speculative philosophical Buddhism in an imaginative way.

Is vajrayogini a Kali?

Their secret sadhanas were performed in cremation grounds, and in look, feel and function, they are identical to Kali in many respects. In fact, one of the emanations of Vajrayogini, the goddess Chinnamasta, entered Kali worship as one of the ten mahavidyas.

Who is dakini and Yogini?

Padmasambhava was known as a yogi and Yeshe Tsogyal, a Tibetan princess, yogini and consort of Padmasambhava , as a ḍākinī. The scholar Miranda Shaw stated that “In Sanskrit there is only one word, Dakini. There are only female Dakinis… there is no male Dakini.