Chorten Kora

Chorten Kora is a large whitewashed stupa in the town of Trashiyangtse in far eastern Bhutan, modelled on the great Boudhanath stupa of Nepal and built in the eighteenth century. Legend holds that its design was carried back carved on a radish because a scale model could not survive the journey, explaining slight differences from the original. Two circumambulation festivals each year draw pilgrims, including people from an ethnic community across the border, who walk clockwise around the monument.