[Paperback]
by Geshe Michael Roach & Lama Christie McNally
With a unique combination of ancient and contemporary wisdom, The Diamond Cutter presents readers with empowering strategies for success in their work and personal lives.
Michael Roach has richly woven The Diamond Cutter in three layers. The first is a translation of selections from The Diamond Cutter Sutra itself, an ancient text comprised of conversations between the Buddha and his close disciple Subhuti. In the second layer, he quotes from some of the best commentaries of the Tibetan tradition. In the the third layer, the main text, he uses both sutra and commentary as a jumping-off point for presenting his own teachings and business strategies.
He gives fresh insight into ancient wisdom by using examples from his own experience as one of the founders of the Andin International Diamond Corporation, which was started with capital of fifty thousand dollars and which today has annual sales in excess of two hundred million dollars. Much of the success of Andin has come from applying the business strategies presented in The Diamond Cutter. Michael's easy style and spiritual understanding make this work of timeless wisdom an invaluable source for those already familiar with, and those unfamiliar with, Tibetan Buddhism.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Geshe Michael Roach (born December 17, 1952) graduated with honors from Princeton University, spent 25 years in a Tibetan Buddhist monastery completing his qualification (the Buddhist equivalent of a Doctorate in Philosophy), becoming the first Westerner in 600 years to do so. His teacher then told him to get a job so he could understand the day-to-day issues people face.
He agreed and became one of the founders of Andin International, a New York diamond company, and helped build it from a $50,000 loan and less than 5 employees into a corporation with annual sales of US$250 million dollars, which was sold to super-investor Warren Buffet in 2009.
At Andin, Roach secretly used 2500 year-old Buddhist principles to run his department, and he wrote about his methods and the company's phenomenal success in his global best-selling book, The Diamond Cutter Book - the Buddha on Managing Your Business and Your Life, which has been translated into 20 languages. Being a monk, Roach gave away his earnings to Tibetan Buddhist refugees in India.
Roach calls the ideas he used for business success 'Karmic Management' - applying traditional Eastern wisdom to the issues of modern business and everyday life. Turning the traditional business mentality on its head, Roach proposes that helping others become successful--suppliers, customers, even competitors--is the real key to success in life as well as in business.
"The goal of business, and of ancient Tibetan wisdom, and in fact all human endeavor, is to enrich ourselves--to achieve prosperity, both outer and inner. And over the length of our lives we must seek ways to make this prosperity meaningful in a larger sense ... It is a lesson which can be learned and applied by anyone, whatever his or her background or beliefs," he says.
Geshe Michael has used this training to become a prominent international teacher, businessman, philanthropist, author, educator, public speaker, textual scholar, and musician. He has received the Presidential Scholar Medal from the President of the United States at the White House.
He is the founder of the Asian Classics Institute, Diamond Mountain University, the Asian Classics Input Project, Worldview, the Yoga Studies Institute, Star in the East, Global Family Refugee Aid, Three Jewels Community Outreach Centers, and the Diamond Cutter Institute.
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