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A Buddhist Tantric text, rGyud nyi zla kha sbyor(Embrace of the Sun and the Moon Tantra), states:

If [historical] background is not explained
Even the most definitive of Tantric teachings
Will be received with cynicism and disbelief.

This clearly emphasizes the need to present a clear and unambiguous background of any project, and its aims and objectives. To not explain the purpose and goals clearly would make people find it difficult to generate trust and confidence in the project.

I therefore would firstly like to reveal whos motivation that led to the conception of this project.

We humans, for the sake of finding pleasure and joy through wealth and prosperity, have striven industriously in various activities such as business and handicrafts. However, even if we were to become so rich to be able to buy this entire global world all to oneself, what use will there be of it, for when all we need is a stomach full of food and a shelter to live. This, no wonder, even the animals can find. Endowed with a sharp intellect and sensible heart, if we fail to put ourselves in the service of others, we are no better than the animals.

That we are capable of making our life worthwhile by serving others is well proven by hundreds of great beings and our wise ancestors, who have endured great hardships for the good of the humankind in particular and all sentient beings in general. Thus given these, I feel a great of responsibility to help fulfil the dreams and desires of others through a peaceful and non-violent means. Of course as a human and move as a Buddhist monk, I resolve to work, Under all circumstances and endure all hardships, to benefit others and help alleviate their difficulties.

In this world, despite the unprecedented progress made in the field of medicine, there are still millions of people inflicted by pain and anguish caused by a hundred dreadful illness and diseases. I have seen them strike my family, and others including my neighbours. At pained me so intensely, that I began to look for means to relieve and alleviate their pain. And those of all others. Although to work on a large-scale would be too testing for me, I resolved to begin from Dankhok, a small village near the Drichu River in Eastern Tibet.