Michael Roach (b. 1952) is a teacher of Tibetan Buddhism of the Gelugpa school, and was the first Westerner to qualify for the geshe degree at Sera Monastery in India. He received the degree after twenty-two years of (part time) training in both India and abroad. He is a scholar in Tibetan, Sanskrit, and Russian.
He is currently spiritual director at Diamond Mountain University in Bowie, Arizona, which he founded in 2004. He has founded several other endeavors in addition, including Andin International in 1981, the Asian Classics Institute (ACI) in 1993, the Asian Classics Input Project (ACIP), the Diamond Abbey in New York, and the Enlightened Business Institute.
Michael Terrence Roach (born October 5, 1958) was an Australian rules football player with Richmond in the Victorian Football League between 1977 and 1989.
Remembered for his long, accurate kicking for goal and spectacular marking, for a brief period Roach was the best forward in Australian football. The second of a trio of brilliant forwards recruited by Richmond from Tasmania (the others being Royce Hart and Matthew Richardson), Roach was an enormously popular player whose career didn't quite live up to expectation because of injury and constant shuffling of his position by the club. Nevertheless, he achieved many honours in the game and became one of the first players from the Apple Isle to play 200 VFL games.
