An assembly of Buddhist lineage figures, spiritual teachers, Buddhas, bodhisattvas, shravaka and pratyekabuddha arhats, yidams, dakas, dakinis and Dharma protectors, often visualized on the top of a tree, which serves as an object for making prostrations, offerings and requests for inspiration, and which functions as a field in which one thereby plants the seeds of positive force (merit) that will give an abundant (bountiful) crop of the enlightening qualities of Buddhahood.
Tibetan: ཚོགས་ཞིང་། tshogs-zhing
Synonyms: Merit-field; Tree of assembled gurus
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