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A Diamond-Cutter Like No Other

The Many Facets of Michael RoachCarole Tonkinson

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Into the turn-of-the-century splendor of New York City's National Arts Club strides Michael Roach, carrying with him 30,000 pages of Tibetan Buddhist sutras—and $20,000 in diamonds. Roach has chosen the club's stately, mahogany-paneled dining room as a meeting place to discuss his plans to digitize the dharma. He's barely in his chair before he switches on his Powerbook to demonstrate the latest release of the Asian Classics Input Project (ACIP), an organization he founded that employs about twenty young monks in India to type the Tibetan canon onto CD-ROMs (computer disks). After a few moments, one thing is clear: Michael Roach is not just a simple Buddhist monk.

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