Where does “merit field” come from?

merit field (English) comes from Tibetan ཚོགས་ཞིང, from Tibetan ཞིང, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan b-liŋ — field; forest.

merit field (English): a pictorial representation, usually represented...

Definitions

  1. a pictorial representation, usually represented...

Ancestry of “merit field”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཚོགས་ཞིངmerit field, Refuge tree
2Tibetanཞིངfield, ground, farmland; region, country, sphere,...
3Proto-Sino-Tibetanb-liŋfield; forest
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan b-liŋ →Every word from Tibetan ཞིང →Every word from Tibetan ཚོགས་ཞིང →
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