Itanagar, March 29 -- Thousands of devotees, including a significant number of Bhutanese nationals, gathered at Zemithang Valley in Arunachal Pradesh's Tawang district from March 26-29, to celebrate the annual Gorsam Kora festival, a vibrant display of shared Himalayan Buddhist cultural heritage and the enduring India-Bhutan friendship.

The festival, held annually, centers around the 12th-century Gorsam Chorten, a 93-foot stupa built by Lama Pradhar, predating the famous Tawang Monastery. This stupa, modeled after Nepal's Boudhanath Stupa, holds deep spiritual significance, mirroring the Chorten Kora in Trashiyangtse, Bhutan, built in 1740.

The event, organized by the local Zemithang community with support from civil authorities and the...