Kailasha
| Mount Kailash | |
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The north face of Mount Kailash
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| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 6,638 m (21,778 ft) |
| Prominence | 1,319 m (4,327 ft) |
| Coordinates | 31°4′0″N 81°18′45″E / 31.06667°N 81.31250°ECoordinates: 31°4′0″N 81°18′45″E / 31.06667°N 81.31250°E |
| Geography | |
 Mount Kailash
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| Parent range | Transhimalaya |
Mount Kailash (also Mount Kailasa or Gang Rinpoche (Tibetan: གངས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ; Chinese: 冈仁波齐峰) is a peak in the Kailash Range (Gangdisê Mountains), which forms part of Transhimalaya in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.
Kailash lies near the source of some of the longest Asian rivers: the Indus, Sutlej, Brahmaputra, and Ghaghara (a tributary of the Ganges). It is considered a sacred place in four religions: Bön, Buddhism, Hinduism and Jainism. Kailash is near Lake Manasarovar and Lake Rakshastal.
The mountain is known as Kailāsa (कैलास) in Sanskrit. The name may be derived from the word kelāsa (केलास), which means "crystal". In his Tibetan-English dictionary, Chandra (1902: p. 32) identifies the entry for 'kai la sha' (Wylie: kai la sha) which is a loan word from Sanskrit 'kailāsa' (Devanagari: कैलास).
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