Motivation behind Bodhicitta Sangha
These days people tend to focus their energies on amassing wealth in a material sense. While this may bring about a certain sense of contentment, the truth of the matter is that we have lost any sense of love and compassion, and any understanding of the principle of karma, or cause and effect, as well as virtue and vice and right and wrong. This ends up bringing us nothing but angst and discontentment.
For this reason, we need to devote ourselves to that which will bring happiness and harmony to all beings. Such methods are to be found in the Buddha’s teachings as explained in the Buddhist scriptures.
 To put these teachings into practice, we must begin by receiving explanations and using these instructions to study, contemplate, and meditate. Whatever we understand then needs to be used as a method to tame the mind. In other words, we need to transform and correct our attitude.
The happiness and well-being of sentient beings cannot be found outside in the material world. Rather, this depends primarily on how beings conduct themselves; it depends on what they do, say, and think. The Buddha’s teachings are relevant to all forms of life. This is not a system that makes distinctions based on race, ethnicity, social class, wealth or power.
We have established the Bodhicitta Sangha to enable people to study this extraordinary spiritual tradition, so I offer my heartfelt thanks to all those who aid and support our mission.
Sincerely,
Wandering Sherab Sangpo
About Khenpo Sherab Sangpo
The Tibetan word "khenpo" literally means "wise one." This title refers to an individual who has completed a rigorous course of philosophical study that can often take over a decade to complete, and who has been formally recognized as a qualified Buddhist professor. Khenpo Sherab Sangpo completed over twenty years of training in Eastern Tibet, where he studied with some of the most renowned lamas of the past century.
In addition to completing his training as a Khenpo, he has spent many years meditating upon the teachings he has received. Repeatedly, his abilities as a teacher of the highest order have been recognized by his spiritual elders. As one of the premier young lamas in the Tibetan Buddhist world, Khenpo Sherab Sangpo has been invited to teach at Buddhist centers across the globe. Most recently, he spent four years teaching at the renowned Center for Buddhist Studies at the Rangjung Yeshe Institute, located in Kathmandu, Nepal, where he taught both Tibetan monks and Western students.
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