Where does “ལྷ་ཁང” come from?

ལྷ་ཁང (Kurtop) comes from Tibetan ལྷ་ཁང, from Tibetan ལྷ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan m-hla — soul; god; demon.

Ancestry of “ལྷ་ཁང”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanལྷ་ཁངtemple
2Tibetanལྷgod, deity
3Proto-Sino-Tibetanm-hlasoul; god; demon
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan m-hla →Every word from Tibetan ལྷ →Every word from Tibetan ལྷ་ཁང →