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Where does “ཚོགས་ཞིང” come from?

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

ཚོགས་ཞིང (Tibetan): merit field, Refuge tree

Definitions

  1. merit field, Refuge tree

Ancestry of “ཚོགས་ཞིང”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanཞིངfield, ground, farmland; region, country, sphere,...
2Proto-Sino-Tibetanb-liŋfield; forest
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