Mount Kailas
| 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 Kailas; Kangrinboqê or Gang Rinpoche (Tibetan: གངས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ; Chinese: 冈仁波齐峰 (simplified); Chinese: 岡仁波齊峰 (traditional)) is a peak in the Kailash Range (Gangdisê Mountains), which forms part of the Transhimalaya in the Tibetan Autonomous Region of China.
Mt. Kailash lies near the source of some of the longest rivers in Asia: the Indus River, Sutlej River, Brahmaputra River, and Karnali River (a tributary of the Ganges River). It is considered a sacred place in four religions: Bön, Buddhism, Hinduism and Jainism. The mountain lies 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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