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Naming Mattered: How was Zhemgang, Trong, Dangkhar and Pam Named.

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Dangkhar Village Ma n y times, r ece nt l y and in past, elderly citizens, Lam Neten, Khenpos, and many others from Zhemgang kept sharing the story about its original names and significance of Trong, Dangkhar and Pam in Zhemgang. This part of the story was never advertised or published. It was left unheard by scholars and researchers who delved in the subject. On other hands, there are popular myth widely published in magazines, websites, travel desks, books, news, and scholarly articles etc.. It was published sneeringly naming the communities. These names and narration are biased. Moreover, it is understood nastiest when readers fail in understanding it as ‘mythical’ oral narration. Meaning it does not hold a truth or reality behind.   On other hands, the popular myth did not do any good (other than covering it for the sake of the mythical story).  It was negatively connoted to ancestors, children, family, and people of Kheng and these communities. Many other friends and