Dochu La (Dochula Pass) — Druk Wangyal Lhakhang area

Dochu La (also spelled Dochula Pass) is a high-mountain pass on the road between Thimphu and Punakha in Bhutan. The site includes a group of 108 memorial chortens known as the Druk Wangyal Chortens, erected by Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuk in memory of Bhutanese soldiers who died in 2003, and the Druk Wangyal Lhakhang temple, built in honour of the fourth Druk Gyalpo, Jigme Singye Wangchuck. The open ceremonial grounds in front of the Lhakhang are used for the annual Dochula Druk Wangyel Festival. The pass is adjacent to Bhutan's first Royal Botanical Park, situating it within a protected and scenic landscape.\n\nThe supplied sources are geographic, commemorative, and cultural in nature and do not record any supernatural, haunted, or paranormal phenomena associated with the pass, its chortens, or the temple. No named spirits, apparitions, or witness accounts are present in the documentation provided. As such, the site's significance in the sources is secularly and culturally oriented (memorial, religious, and touristic) rather than folkloric or paranormal.