 Kuan admired the nuns and their free will to enter monastic life and so in 1948, Neihan Kuan left China and went to Taiwan where she met the Benedictine Sisters, entered the monastery, and became Baulu Kuan, OSB.Later in the 1950s she moved to the Saint Benedict's Monastery in St. Joseph, Minnesota where she currently resides.In her undergraduate schooling at the College of St. Benedict, Kuan pursued a double major in art and literature and a minor in education.