The Kunpan Cultural School, provided by the Swiss-Tibetan foundation ES Tibet, is located in Dharamshala in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.

At the beginning of 2002, courses for twenty female and male students in Whitefield, Bangalore, started in a building that had rooms enough to provide living quarters and classrooms.

Jigme Lhundup Rinpoche, the former speaker and minister of the Central Tibetan Administration, had been an important supporter of ES Tibet, and had contributed immensely toward overall development of Kunpan Cultural School.

With his unmeasurable effort and clear vision had brought many supporters and great results both to students’ achievement and organisation development as whole.

Supported by Jigme Lhundup Rinpoche, in June 2010 the board members of Kunpan Cultural School had the privilege of privately meeting the 14th Dalai Lama at his residence in Dharamsala.

He acknowledged and appreciated the successful work that Kunpan have been doing for the previous ten years in terms of educating Tibetan refugees in India.

Within 2.5 years the students earn educational basics to aa level which corresponds with the 10th grade in India public schools.

[3] Main subjects of the school are lessons in English and Chinese and computer skills, supported by additional workshops in mathematics, bookkeeping and Tibetan and Western philosophy.