I live in a the Tibetan refugee settlement of Mundgod started in the 1960s in South India.  There are approximately 10,000 men, women and children presently living in 9 camps. In the early 1980s, Ven. Thupten Lhatso began to work on establishing a nunnery. A small prayer hall was built in 1986 and today we have a group of 165 nuns. This paper is about Jangchup Choeling Nunnery, how our educational program is structured and the support that we have received to create a place where the study of Buddhist philosophy can flourish.