The Purnell Foundation acknowledges the need for a small medical library at the Jharkot Monastery and Tibetan Medical school in the village of Jharkot, a village located in Northwestern Nepal and inhabited primarily by Tibetans. At the present time, there are no library facilities in this region of the country, nor are there medical facilities. The Amchi (Tibetan Medicine) school has only a few books and relies mostly on Tibetan sutras (traditional prayers recited by the monks) for teaching.  The problem of educating the 30-40 medical students is due to lack of teaching equipment. This is critical because these students will one day be treating the surrounding village people. The surrounding communities currently come to the monastery for treatment or one of the older Amchi students goes to their home  for treatment. The medical library would be open to the public as a medical resource.

Library resources including but not limited to: texts, computers, medical journals in all three languages, medical instruction material, basic supplies, and CD Roms.

The Purnell Foundation has established a budget of $20,000 to accomplish its goal of providing printed medical instruction material, several computers, CD Roms, text books and medical journals for the Amchi students.