. >> sid johnson was completely taken with the charismatic leader.e was a struggling musician curious about buddhism who had traveled to might roach in the late 1990s. >> i really wanted to be part of this, like something big was coming, and he was going to be part of this. and i really bought into that at the time. >> at first, roach was celebrated as an ambassador of tibetan buddhism for americans, but there was something unorthodox about this monk. >> most buddhists are stuffy older people, but these were all really good-looking young people. >> and many of those were attractive women. >> actually there were two women at the time with him. >> and he disappeared with them at night? >> yeah. >> one of them was that woman you heard about at the beginning, the one they were rescuing on the mountain. >> i come from a lineage, a tibetan lineage. >> she had gone to india. then met roach when she got back to new york and quickly became his star pupil. she called him her lamlama, meag revered teacher and very, very close. >> i was actually glued to the sid