Project 108 Corridor: 108 Chortens, 108 Metres Apart

Project 108 places its chortens in a single line rather than a cluster. At 108 metres apart, the 108 Jangchub Chortens span 107 intervals — 11,556 metres, about 11.6 kilometres, from the first to the last. Published descriptions give the corridor as about 11 kilometres (when His Majesty walked it in March) and about 11.7 kilometres (in September); the arithmetic of the spacing sits between them.

Three chortens mark the line’s structure. On 16 June 2026 the Central Monastic Body performed the Salang Tendrel — the ground-breaking ceremony — at all three simultaneously: Chorten 1 near Serzhong Bridge, Chorten 92 at the Chuzergang viewpoint, and Chorten 108, the beginning, middle and end of the corridor. All 108 sites were blessed that day.

Each chorten is about 15 metres tall, and the instruction for the day is 300 volunteers to each — 32,400 people on the structures alone, with close to 40,000 expected in all. Every one of the 108 is to be raised on 1 November 2026.

The chart is schematic. Distances along the line are to scale; the river’s actual course, and the terrain it runs through, are not drawn.

The full account of the project is in Project 108: The Plan and the Vision.