Editing Kangchenjunga (section)

==Etymology==
''Kangchenjunga'' is the official spelling adopted by [[Douglas Freshfield]], [[Alexander Mitchell Kellas]] and the [[Royal Geographical Society]], and provides the most accurate English rendition of the [[Standard Tibetan|Tibetan]] pronunciation. Freshfield referred to the spelling used by the Indian Government since the late 19th century.<ref name=Freshfield1903/> Alternative spellings include Kanchenjunga, Khangchendzonga and Kangchendzönga.<ref name=Band1955>{{cite magazine |author=Band, G. |year=1955 |title=Kanchenjunga Climbed |magazine=The Geographical Magazine |volume=28 |pages=422–438}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Nirash, N. |year=1982 |title=The Lepchas of Sikkim |journal=Bulletin of Tibetology |volume=18 |issue=2 |pages=18–23 |url=https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/1810/242791/bot_1982_02_03.pdf?sequence=1}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Denjongpa, A. B. |year=2002 |title=Kangchendzönga: Secular and Buddhist perceptions of the mountain deity of Sikkim among the Lhopos |journal=Bulletin of Tibetology |volume=38 |pages=5–37 |url=https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/1810/242513/bot_2002_02_01.pdf?sequence=1}}</ref>

The brothers [[Hermann Schlagintweit|Hermann]], [[Adolf Schlagintweit|Adolf]] and [[Robert Schlagintweit]] explained the local name 'Kanchinjínga', meaning "the five treasures of the high snow", as originating from the [[Tibetan languages|Tibetan]] words "gangs" {{IPA|bo|kaŋ|pron}}, meaning snow and ice; "chen", {{IPA|bo|tɕen|pron}} meaning great; "mdzod", meaning treasure; and "lnga", meaning five.<ref name=Schlagintweit1863>{{cite book |author1=De Schlagintweit, H. |author2=de Schlagintweit, A. |author3=de Schlagintweit, R. |year=1863 |title=Results of a Scientific Mission to India and High Asia, undertaken between the years MDCCCLIV and MDCCCLVIII by order of the court of Directors of the Honourable East India Company |volume=III |publisher=Brockhaus, Leipzig and Trübner & Co. |location=London |chapter=IV. Names explained |page=207 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jOE-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA207}}</ref>
The local Lhopo people believe that the treasures are hidden but reveal themselves to the devout when the world is in peril; the treasures comprise [[salt]], [[gold]], [[turquoise]] and [[precious stones]], sacred scriptures, invincible armor or ammunition, grain and medicine.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Scheid |first1= C. S. |year=2014 |title=Hidden land and changing landscape: Narratives about Mount Khangchendzonga among the Lepcha and the Lhopo |journal=Journal of the Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=66–89}}</ref>