Step 1 · Sign in
Sign in your way
Two ways in, and nothing is sent until you approve.
- Bhutan App: approve it there, then come back.
- Phone number: a six-digit code, with a resend after 30 seconds.
- One person, one contribution
- No password to remember
Raised at GMC on 1 November
Sealed until 21 February 2027
Place yourself among
Gelephu · Collect opens 13 October
Place yourself among
one hundred and eight
- A Prayer.
- A Moment.
- A Place in History.
One selfie·
Up to fifty photos·
One prayer·
Raised at GMC on 1 November·
Sealed until 21 February 2027·
One person, one contribution·
One selfie·
Up to fifty photos·
One prayer·
Raised at GMC on 1 November·
Sealed until 21 February 2027·
One person, one contribution·
One hundred
and eight
Your selfie
Camera only. No gallery upload.
Reveal my prayer on 21 February
Off, and it stays sealed for as long as you choose.
+
5 of 50 photos
Your prayer · sealed
May every lamp find — — — —
Opens 21 February 2034 · sealed 7 years
Raised 1 November
The hundred and eight are raised for everyone. Nobody is given a number. What you place belongs to the whole, and it stays dark until the reveal.
Step 2 · Selfie
Take your selfie
Camera only, so it is really you.
- Keep or retake: as many times as you like until 8 November.
- Your face: shown on 21 February, or appear as an unnamed lamp.
- No gallery upload
- Your choice to show it
Step 3 · Photos
Add up to fifty photos
Whatever you add waits, unseen, until the reveal.
- Private now: nobody sees them while collecting is open.
- Public on 21 February 2027: together with everything placed at GMC.
- Delete any until 8 November
- Other faces blurred
Step 4 · Handles
Link your handles
So the people who know you can find what you placed.
- WhatsApp: already verified by the number you signed in with.
- X, TikTok, Instagram, Telegram: link any, or none.
- Private by default
- Show each one only if you choose
Step 5 · Prayer
Place your prayer
One prayer, signed with your name.
- 108 characters: in Dzongkha or English.
- Sealed: open it with everything else, or keep it sealed for 1 to 108 years.
- First four words visible
- Editable until 8 November
One prayer, sealed for as long as you choose.
1
A hundred and eight characters
In Dzongkha or English, counted so Dzongkha gets its full hundred and eight.
2
Four words stay visible
From 21 February 2027 the first four words can be seen. The rest stays dark.
3
Sealed past the reveal
Open it with everything else, or keep it sealed for 1 to 108 years.
4
Signed with your name
Every prayer carries the name of the person who placed it.
༄༅། །སྐྱབས་འགྲོ་སེམས་བསྐྱེད་བཞུགས་སོ། ། སངས་རྒྱས་ཆོས་དང་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་མཆོག་རྣམས་ལ། །བྱང་ཆུབ་བར་དུ་བདག་ནི་སྐྱབས་སུ་མཆི། །བདག་གིས་སྦྱིན་སོགས་བགྱིས་པའི་བསོད་ནམས་ཀྱིས། །འགྲོ་ལ་ཕན་ཕྱིར་སངས་རྒྱས་འགྲུབ་པར་ཤོག ། ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ། ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ། ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ། །
What happens to my photos
“Whatever you would say if you were standing there.”
Key dates
13
13 October 2026
Collect opens
1
1 November 2026
The hundred and eight are raised at GMC
8
8 November 2026, 23:59
Everything closes and seals
21
21 February 2027