How Kathmandu’s ‘kung fu nuns’ sprang into action after the quakeRAMKOT, Nepal – The earthquake shook the sprawling Buddhist nunnery near this village in the western valley of Kathmandu so violently that the nuns jumped through shattered glass windows, smashed open rattling doors and dived over a collapsing staircase. They are, after all, the “kung fu nuns of Kathmandu.”