Official Vandalizing- Saving the fading future of Chortens
Bhutan is known throughout the world for our exotic collection of cultural sites and monuments. These monuments echo the prosperous root of Buddhism and we make no mistake in showing our rich culture. Chortens were and are the most famous monument ms that dots all hills, passes, valleys, near rivers, villages, near the temples and Dzongs, cremation grounds and many more places. These various-sized stone monuments were built to ward off the evil spirits and bring peace to the locality. Some of them were erected after subduing the local demons and deities by great lamas. These chortens hold a great significance as they are as old as Buddhism in Bhutan. They retell the history and the situation, and believe our ancestors had. The chortens were constructed with almost the same materials- mud and stone but their shape and size varied to suit the purpose and the financial wellness of the sponsors. These materials have become vulnerable with time. The unknown and the known re